Posts Tagged ‘ransomware’
Berlin Ransomware Attack: State Refuses to Pay
A Berlin ransomware attack has put Germany’s capital in the position every public-sector CISO dreads: a confirmed data breach, a seven-figure ransom demand, and an election three weeks away. The ransomware group Rhysida claims it stole 5.79 terabytes from Berlin’s state administrative network and is demanding 30 Bitcoin, roughly €2.05 million, with a seven-day auction…
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 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…
Read MorePTC Windchill CVE-2026-12569 Extortion Hits Shell, Philips
The PTC Windchill CVE-2026-12569 extortion campaign run by the Clop ransomware group went fully public on August 12–13, when Clop named Shell, Philips, General Electric, Fiserv and roughly 45 other organizations on its leak site as victims of a data-theft operation running through the same PTC Windchill/FlexPLM flaw DIESEC has already covered twice this year.…
Read MoreJuly 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup: A Rogue AI Agent, Ransomware Disruption, and Critical CVEs
This July 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup lands in a month when the peak of northern-hemisphere summer brought no letup in cyber incidents — if anything, July produced some of the year’s most unusual attacks so far. Here’s a roundup of the month’s key incidents and newly disclosed vulnerabilities, along with our take on what they mean.…
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