Security News

Mirai Malware Hacker Pleads Guilty in German Court (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-24 12:17

British 'Spiderman' May Also Be GovRAT Cyber Espionage Malware AuthorA British man named by authorities as "Daniel K." - aka "Spiderman" and "Peter Parker" - pleaded guilty in German court to...

Briton Pleads Guilty to Mirai Attacks in German Court (Security Week)
2017-07-24 08:37

A British man pleaded guilty last week in a German court to launching a cyberattack that resulted in more than one million customers of telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom experiencing...

Understanding Geopolitics Key to Analyzing Cyber Espionage: German Intelligence Service (Security Week)
2017-07-05 16:24

Understanding geopolitics is key to understanding the perpetrators and victims of cyber espionage. This is one of the key messages from the German federal domestic intelligence service (BfV) 2016...

New German Law Risks Chilling Effect on Free Speech in Social Media (Security Week)
2017-07-03 11:52

Germany passed a new law on Friday that imposes fines of up to €50 million on social media services with more than 2 million German users if they fail to remove hate speech or other illegal...

German law enforcement gets new hacking powers (Help Net Security)
2017-06-26 15:34

On Thursday, the Bundestag has voted to accept a new amendment that will expand the German police’s hacking powers. The new amendment will allow them to use so-called “federal Trojans” to hack...

Attackers exploited SS7 flaws to empty Germans’ bank accounts (Help Net Security)
2017-05-04 16:59

Cyber criminals have started exploiting a long-known security vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocols to bypass German banks’ two-factor authentication and drain their customers’ bank accounts. What...

Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 13:15

German and Czech Android users are getting served with a banking Trojan directly through text messages, warns malware researcher Bart Blaze. The message claims that the user has missed the...