Digital Omnibus Incident Reporting: Council Position

Digital Omnibus incident reporting: brushed steel dial with a glowing green scale arc and a blue pointer on black

The Council of the European Union has agreed its negotiating position on changes that could reshape Digital Omnibus incident reporting: how organisations report personal-data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. For MSPs and MSSPs that run incident response for clients, the proposals could matter a great deal. They are not law yet. What Happened On 21 October…

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IDC Frontier Ransomware: One Cloud, 495 Customers

IDC Frontier ransomware attack on a Japanese cloud provider affecting 495 customers, October 2026

One ransomware attack on one cloud region has hit 495 companies and local governments in Japan at once. IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary, said its IDCF Cloud service was struck by ransomware on October 7 at 3:40 a.m. local time, forcing it to shut down the network and systems of its East Japan Region 1.…

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Cyber Dependencies and Attack Surface: ENISA 2026

ENISA Threat Landscape 2026 and cyber dependencies expanding the attack surface

The ENISA Threat Landscape 2026, published on 22 September, has a message that gets less attention than the usual list of threats: organisations are increasingly exposed through their cyber dependencies, meaning the technologies, suppliers and services they rely on. For German businesses, that means cyber risk no longer sits only in internal networks and endpoints.…

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GUTcert critical infrastructure data breach

A breach at certifier GUTcert exposed German critical infrastructure data; energy utility ENTEGA confirms it is a downstream victim.

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…

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DACH Threat Landscape 2026: What SMEs Must Know

DACH region 2026 cyber threat landscape overview for German, Austrian and Swiss companies

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…

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