Cybercrime

Cyberattacks in Turkey rose 24.9 percent in the first half of 2018, up from 21.9 percent in the same period last year, according to Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point on Sept. 7 said a surveillance operation had targeted the smartphones of several hundred Iranian citizens, including those of Turkish origin.

Bucharest, Aug 18 /Agerpres/ - The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) announced on Saturday that through its cyber-intelligence unit - the National Cyberint Center (CNC) - it has certain data and information, including of technical nature, that massive cyber-attacks took place on some financial institutions in Romania from June to August of this year.

Anti-piracy tech company Denuvo isn't messing around when it comes to game hackers. It touts its digital rights management (DRM) tool as uncrackable and for the most part, it held up for years. But in 2016, a Bulgarian games cracker called Voksi managed to break the system, and now he's been arrested.

Cyprus's police cybercrime unit is warning the public of a money extortion scheme, following complaints from people who recently received threatening emails.

The Russian Foreign Ministry leveled new criticism at Greece on Friday over a court's decision to extradite a Russian cybercrime suspect to France, two days after it was revealed Greece would expel two Russian diplomats and ban the entry into Greece of two more, accusing them of meddling in domestic affairs.

The Turkish National Police's "anti-cybercrimes department" is surveilling the around 45 million social media users in the country to monitor possible criminal activity committed through the internet.

Deputy Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov opened an international scientific conference on cybersecurity and cyber defence entitled Building a Rapid Response. The conference is held on 13-14 June 2018 in Sofia in the framework of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The EU is to enhance its cyber resilience by setting up an EU-wide certification framework for information and communication technology (ICT) products, services and processes. The industry could use the new mechanism to certify products such as connected cars and smart medical devices. The Council today agreed its general approach on the proposal, known as the Cybersecurity Act.

More than 900 European cyber security experts representing 300 agencies and organizations took part this week in 'Cyber Europe 2018,' a 48-hour exercise hosted by the local branch of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) in Maroussi, northern Athens.