Posts Tagged ‘NIS2’
GUTcert critical infrastructure data breach
A GUTcert critical infrastructure data breach has exposed roughly 640 GB of documentation submitted by German energy-grid operators as certification evidence, including exact substation locations and network topology maps. On September 24, Darmstadt utility ENTEGA AG confirmed it is a downstream victim, and more operators are expected to come forward. What Happened GUTcert is a…
Read MoreDACH Threat Landscape 2026: What SMEs Must Know
A ransomware incident can halt a production line, disrupt a logistics network or leave a clinic scrambling to access essential systems. Across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, those risks are no longer hypothetical. ENISA’s 2025 Threat Landscape report names ransomware as the most disruptive and economically damaging activity in the EU, while hacktivist activity, most of…
Read MoreEU Cybersecurity Incident Response Gaps Exposed
A new European Court of Auditors report finds serious EU cybersecurity incident response gaps at the very top of the escalation ladder: no EU member state has ever formally classified a cyber incident as “large-scale,” the tier that triggers cross-border EU crisis coordination, since that classification system existed from 2016. Not WannaCry. Not NotPetya. Not…
Read MoreBoston Scientific Cyberattack Halts Global Shipments
A Boston Scientific cyberattack detected on August 25 has caused what the company itself calls a “global disruption” — halting order processing and shipping for one of the world’s largest manufacturers of pacemakers, defibrillators, stents and other implantable medical devices, with no confirmed restoration timeline more than a week later. What Happened The Boston Scientific…
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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