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Ransomware for €100 - how hidden stores are making online crime easier

Buying guns, stolen credit cards or even suicide kits is getting easier as hidden online stores become more sophisticated, it’s been claimed.

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Malware Monday as more WannaCry victims expected

More WannaCry victims expected as people return to work

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EUROPOL admits stunned by scale of cyberattack

Police forces around the world astonished at ambition and execution of global cyberattack.

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Will WannaCry strike again?

Businesses around the world are preparing for a further cyber attack amid fears that a lull in the computer bug that halted production at car factories, operations at hospitals and work at schools and

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World's computers struggle to reboot after unprecedented cyberattack

Global security experts are worried about the scale and scope of the latest cyberattack, which spread ransomware in 100 countries causing massive disruption, including to vital services.

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The world is held to ransom

Europol is investigating an "unprecedented" global cyber attack that targeted the UK health system and has led French carmarker Renault to halt production at some sites.

United Kingdom

UK hospitals, Spanish businesses hit by cyber attack

Hackers have launched massive ransomware attacks on the UK health service and a range of Spain's biggest companies in a bid to extort money.

France

Macron campaign targeted by 'Russian hackers'

French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron was the victim of a cyber attack, say experts

Germany

Germany threatens tech firms with €50m fines for hate speech

German ministers have approved a draft law aimed at tackling the growing problem of cyber hate and false information of a criminal nature on the web.

World News

Euroviews. Conflicts in cyberspace: a normative approach to preventing cyberwars

The Russian cyber attacks that were meant to skew the 2016 US election toward Donald Trump have raised new concerns about conflicts in cyberspace. How might normative taboos, such as those against chemical and biological weapons, be adapted to the cyber realm?

United Kingdom

Britain to prepare children to fight cyberterrorism at school

British teenage schoolchildren are to be taught cyberskills in a new initiative designed to combat cyberterrorism.

Norway

Norway suffers extensive hacking of state computer systems

Among those targeted were the Norwegian Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Radiation Protection agency and the Police Security Service

Switzerland

Euroviews. From cybersecurity to health - 10 takeaways from Davos 2017: opinion

Italy

Italian police arrest siblings for 'hacking online accounts of Renzi, Draghi and others'

The Italian postal police claim to have broken up a cyber-espionage ring that has allegedly been collecting sensitive data for years.

USA

Yahoo reveals one billion users hit in second cyber attack

Yahoo has admitted yet another cyber attack but this time one billion user accounts may have been affected.

Germany

Europol 'Operation Avalanche' strikes at global online crime network

Europol says a giant network of hijacked computers suspected of attacking online banking customers has been dismantled.

Germany

Deutsche Telekom 'hack' affects nearly a million customers

Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany had their broadband service cut off following a hack-attack on its hardware.

USA

Hack means San Francisco travels for free

Commuters in the San Francisco Bay area were able to travel for free after hackers hit the network.

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Hackers target European Commission

Hackers have targeted the European Commission’s computer network – trying to overload and crash it.

USA

What we know about the Dyn cyber attack

Connected devices such as cameras were employed as part of the attack on US sites.