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Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage. Duvel Moortgat not only brings Duvel to shop shelves, restaurants, and bars alike, but also other popular tipples such as La Chouffe, Vedett, Firestone Walker, and more.
A Belgian man has been arrested and charged for his role in a years-long smuggling scheme to export military-grade electronics from the US to Russia and China. Belgian law enforcement detained Hans Maria De Geetere, 61, and five others for questioning on December 5.
Basically, it's about a music festival on the border between Belgium and Holland. The stage was in Holland, but the crowd was in Belgium.
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published stolen data from what they thought was the municipality of Zwijndrecht, but turned out to be stolen from Zwijndrecht police, a local police unit in Antwerp, Belgium. Belgian media outlets call this data leak one of the biggest of this kind that has impacted a public service in the country, exposing all data kept by Zwijndrecht police from 2006 until September 2022.
The Belgian Ministry of Defence has suffered a cyber attack after miscreants exploited one of the vulnerabilities in Log4j. The attack marks the first occasion that a NATO country's defence ministry has fallen victim to the flaws.
The company providing internet services for Belgium's parliament, government agencies, universities and scientific institutions said Tuesday that its network was under cyberattack, with connections to several customers disrupted. Belnet said in a statement the attack "Is still in progress and takes place in successive waves. Our teams are working hard to mitigate them." The company has around 200 customers.
The Belgian plod says it seized 27.64 tons of cocaine worth €1.4bn from shipments into Antwerp in the past six weeks after defeating the encryption in the Sky ECC chat app to read drug smugglers' messages. "During a judicial investigation into a potential service criminal organization suspected of knowingly providing encrypted telephones to the criminal environment, police specialists managed to crack the encrypted messages from Sky ECC," the Belgian police claimed, CNN reports.
A series of police raids in Belgium have resulted in the apparent shutdown of the Sky ECC encrypted mobile phone network. As the second major encrypted phone network to be shut down by police in Europe, Sky ECC's seeming downfall has parallels with the Encrochat story, where French and Dutch police man-in-the-middle'd the encrypted phone network on suspicion it was being used mainly by organised criminals.
Simply put, Vanhoof relied on the fact that many older Nespresso setups rely on what's known as a stored-value wireless payment card, something that's similar to but importantly different from a modern credit card. Wireless in this case means that the card uses NFC, short for Near Field Communication, the same underlying technology that's used by credit cards, many modern door security cards and almost all passports issued in the past 10 years.