Security News

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos
2019-10-10 17:00

Haben sie nicht von dem Streisand-Effekt gehört? Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that...

600 armed German cops storm Cyberbunker hosting biz on illegal darknet market claims
2019-09-30 14:54

Look, it's CB3ROB – remember them? Cops have seized the physical premises and servers of the Dutch-German ISP that once hosted The Pirate Bay – after storming the hosting biz's ex-NATO bunker...

German Cops Raid “Cyberbunker 2.0,” Arrest 7 in Child Porn, Dark Web Market Sting
2019-09-28 23:25

German authorities said Friday they'd arrested seven people and were investigating six more in connection with the raid of a Dark Web hosting operation that allegedly supported multiple child...

German Auto and Defense Firm Rheinmetall Says Malware Hit Several Plants
2019-09-27 13:08

Germany-based car parts and defense solutions provider Rheinmetall announced on Thursday that production at its automotive plants in the United States, Brazil and Mexico was disrupted as a result...

German Court Lifts Order Limiting Facebook Data Aggregating
2019-08-28 12:04

But Germany's Cartel Office Plans to AppealFacebook won a victory in Germany after a court on Monday suspended an order from the Federal Cartel Office that sought to prohibit the social network...

German privacy probe orders Google to stop listening in on voice recordings for 3 months
2019-08-02 16:31

AI reviews halted as Apple vows to close human ears to Siri clips Germany's data protection commissioner in Hamburg has launched an investigation into Google over revelations that contracted...

German banks to stop using SMS to deliver second authentication/verification factor
2019-07-12 11:27

German banks are moving away from SMS-based customer authentication and transaction verification (called mTAN or SMS-TAN), as the method is deemed to be too insecure. According to German business...

Exclusive: German Police Raid OmniRAT Developer and Seize Digital Assets
2019-06-27 11:18

The German police yesterday raided the house of the developer of OmniRAT and seized his laptop, computer and mobile phones probably as part of an investigation into a recent cyber attack, a source...

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction
2019-05-23 19:05

A German auction house is selling an SG-41. It looks beautiful. Starting price is 75,000 euros. My guess is that it will sell for around 100K euros....

German Police Shut Down Major 'Darknet' Illegal Trading Site
2019-05-03 11:34

German police have shut down one of the world's largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said Friday. The operation...