Data Breaches
Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office says more than 600,000 records were pulled from the Centre of Registers using valid Migration Department login credentials issued queries from abroad. The registry itself was not breached — an authorized third party's login was.
Policy & Government
Between May 19 and 22, Europol hosted the third and most successful operational week of Project A.S.S.E.T., bringing 31 countries and more than 40 agencies into one room to trace criminal money. The result: hundreds of bank accounts and crypto wallets identified.
Policy & Government
Dutch financial-crime investigators seized 800 servers and arrested two men tied to Stark Industries, a hosting firm researchers have long described as a bulletproof hoster. The action targets the shared infrastructure layer beneath Russian state-aligned cyber and influence operations.
Cyber Crime
Europol and Eurojust executed Operation Endgame 2.0 May 19-22: 300+ servers dismantled, 650 domains, 20 international arrest warrants, €3.5M crypto seized across seven countries. The strategic target is the initial-access-broker layer that supplies ransomware affiliates.
Critical Infrastructure
The Record disclosed that the July 23, 2024 nationwide outage of Luxembourg's POST mobile network — which knocked out 4G, 5G, landline, and emergency comms for 3+ hours — was caused by a Huawei enterprise router zero-day. Ten months later: no CVE, no Huawei acknowledgment.
Application Security
InfoGuard Labs disclosed seven CVEs in SEPPmail Secure E-Mail Gateway including CVE-2026-2743 (CVSS 10.0 path traversal to full appliance takeover) and CVE-2026-44128 (unauthenticated Perl eval() RCE). Patched in 15.0.2.1, 15.0.3, and 15.0.4.
Data Breaches
Odido's CEO confirmed May 12 that the Dutch telecom will not compensate 6.2 million ShinyHunters breach victims. Dutch prosecutors are investigating whether the company retained data beyond GDPR limits. The CRM compromise pattern matches the broader ShinyHunters Salesforce campaign.
Critical Infrastructure
The ICO fined South Staffordshire Water nearly GBP 1 million over a Cl0p attack that exposed 633,887 records. Hackers sat undetected for 20 months. Only 5 percent of the IT environment was monitored.
Threat Intelligence
The operator who installed the spyware was the one who left the cloud bucket open.
Trending
A 15-year-old operating as "breach3d" breached France's ANTS national ID agency exposing 11.7 million accounts with passport and driver's license data — and listed 12–19 million records for sale on criminal forums.
Trending
An investigation reveals how NoName057(16) turned DDoS attacks into a cryptocurrency-rewarded 'patriotic game' — with activity increasing after Europol's Operation Eastwood crackdown rather than diminishing.
Military & Defense
Journalist demonstrates naval mail screening flaw by mailing a Bluetooth device to NATO frigate HNLMS Evertsen; envelopes were not X-rayed like standard packages. THE HAGUE, NL — In a staggering demonstration of security asymmetry, a Dutch journalist has exposed a critical physical vulnerability within NATO naval operations. By mailing a $5