A profile of Pepijn Van der Stap, a Dutch cyber prodigy who stole thousands of companies' data while also doing legitimate cybersecurity and is now in prison
Pepijn Van der Stap stayed up through the night of Jan. 22, 2023, repairing one of his computers in silence save for the whirring of its fan.
Dutch agencies: 20K+ FortiGate systems were hacked in a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign in 2022 and 2023, at least two months before FortiGate noted the flaw
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more
The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network … Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @dyckron@mstdn.ca Forums: r/chi...
Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted
A NXP spokesperson declined to elaborate on the nature of the breach, and wouldn't say why NXP has only just begun informing those affected. The intrusion took place on July 11, and was discovered by...
Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally
5 New Vulnerabilities Exposed in Widely Used Radio Communication System Thomas Claburn / The Register : TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts Waqas / HackRead : From P...
Hacks using flaws in Progress's MOVEit tool have hit hundreds of organizations, now including TomTom, Radisson hotels, and real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle
The MOVEit mass-hack has claimed yet more victims, including hotel chain Radisson, U.S.-based 1st Source Bank … Twitter: @carlypage_ Twitter: Carly Page / @carlypage_ : Hotel chain Radisson, U.S.-base...
How European police agencies infiltrated encrypted phone networks, like EncroChat and Sky ECC, that were popular with drug syndicates and other criminal groups
Ed Caesar / New Yorker : Tweets: @rupertmyers , @clairegeorgeseu , @kitchellel , @dduane , @newyorker , and @edcaesar Tweets: Rupert Myers / @rupertmyers : Crooks' Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones - ...
What poet, playboy, and prophet of investment bubbles Charles Mackay, plagiarizing in 1841 on the Dutch tulip bubble, can tell us about crypto's rise and fall
Tim Harford / Financial Times : Tweets: @johnkoetsier , @pkedrosky , @ftweekend , @prashanth_krish , @profjohnturner , @thecompoundnews , and @financialtimes Tweets: John Koetsier / @johnkoetsier : W...
Austrian police say a hacker, arrested in November, tried to sell the name, gender, address, and DOB of “presumably every citizen” in Austria, or 9.1M people
A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth …
The 2020 EncroChat hack led by French and Dutch police is facing growing legal challenges across Europe and the fallout could have global implications for E2EE
Matt Burgess / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : “What we're seeing is that policing authorities and law enforcement authorities are effectively normalizing a policing practice that sets a real...