Cyber News
Stay informed on the latest cybersecurity threats, incidents and regulatory updates across Sweden, the Nordics, and Europe.
Email Overtakes Software Flaws as the Top Ransomware Root Cause
July 17, 2026
July 17, 2026 Finland Issues Wanted Notice for Vastaamo Hacker as Conviction Becomes Final
Finland has issued an international wanted notice for Aleksanteri Kivimäki, the man convicted of breaching Vastaamo, a Finnish psychotherapy provider, and exposing the confidential therapy…
July 15, 2026 Lidl Discloses Customer Data Breach at External IT Provider Across Three Countries
Lidl has notified online shop customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that their personal data was stolen following a breach at an external IT…
July 14, 2026 
Jscrambler NPM Package Compromised Across Five Versions, Rust Infostealer Installed on Upgrade
July 13, 2026
July 13, 2026 
Latvia’s State-Owned Forestry Giant LVM Still Offline Weeks After Ransomware Attack
July 10, 2026
July 10, 2026 Estonia Plans Official Digital IDs for AI Agents in Global First
Estonia is preparing to issue official digital identity credentials to AI agents, in what would be the first state-backed identity framework designed specifically for non-human…
July 9, 2026 
GCHQ Designs Autonomous AI Cyber Shield to Protect UK Infrastructure
July 8, 2026
July 8, 2026 
Citrix NetScaler Memory Flaw Under Active Exploitation by Four Threat Groups
July 7, 2026
July 7, 2026 FBI Warns TeamPCP Poisoned Developer Tools to Harvest Cloud Credentials
The FBI issued a FLASH alert on 2 July 2026 warning that a threat group called TeamPCP had compromised widely used developer and security tools…
July 7, 2026 FortiBleed Credential Campaign Is Feeding INC and Lynx Ransomware Operations
Credentials stolen from FortiGate firewalls are being fed directly into ransomware deployments. The campaign, now tracked as FortiBleed, has compromised over 430,000 FortiGate devices and…
July 3, 2026 
EU AI Act Fines Reach €35 Million, Most Boards Are Not Ready
July 2, 2026
July 2, 2026 
AI-Generated Workflows Are Running in Production Without Anyone Understanding Them
July 1, 2026
July 1, 2026 Iran, Russia and China Are Targeting Water Systems With Default Passwords
The attack method is not sophisticated. Operators at water and wastewater facilities are leaving programmable logic controllers exposed to the internet, running on default credentials,…
June 30, 2026 
Europe Recorded 684 Ransomware Attacks in Four Months. Manufacturing Is the Primary Target
June 26, 2026
June 26, 2026 
Deutsche Bahn GSM-R Failure Halted Every Train in Germany
June 25, 2026
June 25, 2026 Five Eyes Warns AI Will Outpace Cyber Defences Within Months
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that AI-powered cyberattacks are advancing faster than most organisations' defences can adapt, and that the…
June 24, 2026 
NCSC Warns AI Is Reshaping Cyber Risk Faster Than Most Boards Anticipate
June 23, 2026
June 23, 2026 
FortiBleed Credential Campaign Hits 30,000 Fortinet Devices Worldwide
June 22, 2026
June 22, 2026 Estonia Quarantines All Russian .ru Emails Arriving at Government Inboxes
Estonia has started quarantining all incoming emails sent from Russian .ru domains before they reach government officials. The policy took effect on 31 August 2023…
June 17, 2026 
Novo Nordisk Breach Exposes Clinical Trial Data and Healthcare Provider Records
June 16, 2026
June 16, 2026 Attackers Are Using Microsoft Teams Itself to Run Phishing Campaigns
Attackers have moved their phishing operations into Microsoft Teams, contacting employees directly through the platform by operating from Microsoft 365 tenants they control, making their…
June 15, 2026