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Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt, on Tuesday announced the official takedown of Hydra, the world's largest illegal dark web marketplace. " Bitcoins amounting to currently the equivalent of approximately €23 million were seized, which are attributed to the marketplace," the BKA said in a press release.
The servers of Hydra Market, the most prominent Russian darknet platform for selling drugs and money laundering, have been seized by the German police. The confiscated money indicate the size of the Hydra market, which counted around 19,000 registered seller accounts that served at least 17 million customers around the world.
New iShield FIDO2 USB-A / NFC security key protects access to applications and online services. With iShield FIDO2, the industrial storage and security products specialist Swissbit now introduces its first authenticator for the FIDO2 open authentication standard.
Germany's BSI federal cybersecurity agency has warned the country's citizens not to install Russian-owned Kaspersky antivirus, saying it has "Doubts about the reliability of the manufacturer." A company spokesman told The Register: "We believe this decision is not based on a technical assessment of Kaspersky products - that we continuously advocated for with the BSI and across Europe - but instead is being made on political grounds... Kaspersky is a private global cybersecurity company and, as a private company, does not have any ties to the Russian or any other government."
A new regulation coming in the form of an amendment in the Telecommunications Act of Germany could radically change the relationship between consumers and internet service providers. According to the draft, users will be able to test their internet speeds and, if there's a too large deviation between their real-world results and what their ISPs promised, they will be eligible for a bill discount.
MalwareHunterTeam has spotted the two-year-old malware in a new distribution campaign that targets German users with a malicious APK named 'Commerzbank Security' and using the same icon as the official app. Cyble has found that the Hydra-laced app requests 21 permissions, most notably the 'BIND-ACCESSIBILITY PERMISSION' and 'BIND DEVICE ADMIN,' two extremely risky permissions.
In the wake of cyberattacks targeting the recently held German elections, the European Union has blamed Russia for an ongoing disinformation campaign called "Ghostwriter." Germany is the latest target in an effort that for years has tried to discredit NATO, and which has both smeared and cyberattacked Parliament members, other politicians and government officials, and journalists. It's not the first time the campaign has been attributed to Russia, but on Friday, the EU Council made the link official.
A "Left-wing" German infosec researcher was this week threatened with criminal prosecution after revealing that an app used by Angela Merkel's political party to canvass voters was secretly collecting personal data. In May, during federal elections in Germany, the CDU equipped its door-knocking activists with an app called CDU Connect.
Securitas has agreed to acquire Protection One, a German company specializing in remote technology-driven security solutions and electronic security. The acquisition will enhance Securitas' protective services capabilities in Germany and is in line with the Group's strategy of doubling its security solutions and electronic security sales by 2023.
Informatica announced it will make its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, an end-to-end AI-powered data management platform, available on Microsoft Azure Germany in response to cloud customer growth across Europe. With the new IDMC pod on Azure Germany, customers now have additional choice of data location and the ability to innovate with their data to drive the business forward.