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Device Code Phishing: What SMEs Need to Know
Cybercriminals have started exploiting a login shortcut millions of people already trust. Rather than sending victims to a fake login page or trying to steal a password outright, they persuade employees to authorise an attacker-controlled device through a completely legitimate identity provider — Microsoft, most often. The result is a fast-growing form of social engineering…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026 arrives with a pattern that cuts across every story: the infrastructure that organisations designate as trusted — the identity service that decides who gets access, the security tool that watches for threats, the developer pipeline that builds and deploys code, the video conferencing platform that carries internal…
Read MoreIdentity Theft in Germany: What SMEs Need to Know
Germany’s cybercrime problem has a number attached to it: an estimated €202.4 billion in damage to the German economy for the 2025 reporting period, around 4.5 percent of GDP, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office’s (BKA) latest Bundeslagebild Cybercrime report. Behind much of that damage sits a quieter but persistent issue: identity theft in…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 21, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 21, 2026 arrives at a moment when the breadth of simultaneous active exploitation across enterprise infrastructure demands attention that goes beyond any single advisory. Within a seven-day window, CISA added five separate vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue across five entirely different product categories: VMware vCenter, Microsoft SharePoint,…
Read MoreSME Squeeze: NIS2, AI Act, Ransomware Collide
On January 7, 2026, the ransomware group Akira hit Buhlmann Group, a Hamburg-based steel and metal trading company with roughly 2,000 employees and €428 million in annual revenue. The attackers made off with about 55GB of data — engineering drawings, HR files, financial records — before anyone at the company could respond. Buhlmann wasn’t an…
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