Cybersecurity Awareness Trends 2026

Key cybersecurity awareness trends shaping security culture in 2026

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is observed in October in the United States and marks a period of heightened awareness activity across Europe, which makes now a good moment to take stock of how security awareness is changing. The discipline keeps evolving quickly — what the biggest human risks are, what gets in the way of good…

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August 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup

August 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup: breaches at SafePal, CEVA Logistics, France's tax authority, Latvia's CSDD, and Manchester Airports, plus 5 critical CVEs.

This August 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup lands in a month when several of the biggest breaches traced back to familiar weaknesses: a compromised employee credential, an overlooked customer-facing plugin, and infrastructure monitoring that watched the wrong signals. Here’s a look at the month’s key cyberattacks and CVEs, along with our take on what they mean for…

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Device Code Phishing: What SMEs Need to Know

Device code phishing abuses real Microsoft logins and working MFA, leaving few warning signs. Here's what SMEs need to know in 2026.

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…

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Identity Theft in Germany: What SMEs Need to Know

Identity theft and stolen credentials drive most cybercrime in Germany

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…

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SME Squeeze: NIS2, AI Act, Ransomware Collide

Three regulatory and threat deadlines create an SME squeeze in Germany

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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