Asmahan Qarjouli reports: The Qatar Financial Centre’s (QFC) Data Protection Office (DPO) has issued a $150,000 fine on a company under its license following a data breach that enabled access to personal data. The measures, the first of their kind in Doha, were taken by DPO on Tuesday following an investigation that detected breaches of…
James Coker reports: The Australian government has introduced the country’s first standalone cybersecurity law to Parliament. The new legislation aims to better protect citizens and organizations against a heightened geopolitical and cyber threat environment. The Cyber Security Bill 2024 covers a range of areas, including mandating minimum cybersecurity standards for IoT devices and mandatory ransomware reporting for critical infrastructure…
Dmytro Basmat reports: Ukrainian court has sentenced in absentia two members of the Russian security service-backed (FSB) hacker group “Armageddon” for having carried out more than 5,000 cyberattacks against Ukrainian institutions and critical infrastructure, Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said on Oct. 8. Russian hackers have regularly targeted various Ukrainian government institutions as well as businesses with…
Dutch News reports: A 20-year-old Englishman appeared in court in Rotterdam on Tuesday for his role in setting up and running a dark web marketplace named Bohemia. Finlay H, who was just 17 when he became embroiled in the website, was arrested at Schiphol airport this summer. He was in court for a procedural hearing…
Eli Stoanova reports: Russian hackers have attacked the websites of the Senate of the Federal Parliament of Belgium, as well as the electronic pages of the local authority in the southern Belgian region of Wallonia, the administration of the Wallonia-Brussels region and the municipality of Antwerp, local media reported, as quoted by BTA. It is…
Thomson Reuters reports: Russian state media company VGTRK has been targeted in an unprecedented cyberattack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, saying that specialists were working hard to determine who was responsible. VGTRK, which owns and operates Russia’s main national TV channels and a slew of regional channels and radio stations, said earlier on…