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Workiva, provider of the world's leading connected reporting and compliance platform, launched W for ESEF, a focused solution to help European companies simplify compliance with the European Securities and Markets Authority requirements for European Single Electronic Format reporting. W for ESEF - which is available in 23 European languages - offers a distinct subset of functionality for companies that want a targeted ESEF solution.
A European consortium based in Switzerland plans to this week launch an opt-in location-detecting app to expedite contact-tracing those who have encountered coronavirus carriers. The new group, named Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing, promises a GDPR-compliant app that sounds a lot like Singapore's TraceTogether service, but also offers considerable detail on how the service is designed to preserve privacy.
Financially-motivated hackers believed to be operating out of Russia recently targeted companies in Western Europe, and the attacks apparently involved a combination of two Windows vulnerabilities that Microsoft did not expect to be exploited. According to Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB, the threat groups tracked as TA505 and Silence - the company previously found links between the two groups - targeted at least two pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies in Belgium and Germany in late January.
European authorities managed to crack down on two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions by employing SIM hijacking. To perform SIM hijacking, hackers trick the victim's wireless operator into swapping the mobile phone number to a SIM card the attackers control.
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity revealed this week that malicious actors breached its corporate network. TSOs are responsible for the transmission of electric power across the main high-voltage networks, and ENTSO-E works with them on the implementation of energy policies and achieving Europe's energy and climate policy objectives.
Hackers who may have ties to Iran have recently turned their attention to the European energy sector, using open source tools to target one firm's network as part of an cyberespionage operation, according to the security firm Recorded Future. The precise goal of the campaign that the Recorded Future analysts describe in a report released Thursday is not clear, although other studies have found that several Iranian-backed advanced persistent threat groups have targeted U.S. and European businesses connected to the energy sector over the last several years - before the tensions between the U.S. and Iran recently heated up.
Attacks recently identified to target a key organization in the European energy sector have employed a remote access Trojan previously associated with Iran-linked threat actors, Recorded Future reports. The researchers were able to identify a PupyRAT command and control server that communicated with a mail server for a European energy sector organization between November 2019 and at least January 5, 2020.
The European cybersecurity market is determined to exceed $65 billion by 2025, according to Graphical Research. This growth is attributed to strong government initiatives to promote data safety...
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed on Thursday that its Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) website has been compromised by attackers and taken down until the situation is brought...
Malware Found; Personal Data Apparently ExposedThe European Central Bank has closed one of its websites after its IT staff found that a hacker compromised some personal information on the site and...