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ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities

ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform, making EU manufacturers report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents through one portal.

ENISA switched on the Cyber Resilience Act's Single Reporting Platform on 11 September 2026, the same day CRA reporting obligations became binding on manufacturers. Reports require an early warning within 24 hours, a fuller notification within 72 hours, and a final report within 14 days (one month after notification for severe incidents). Filings go through an EU Login account with MFA, are routed to a coordinating CSIRT chosen by the manufacturer, and no API is available in the first release. Open-source software stewards fall under the same obligations from 11 December 2027.

Help Net SecuritySep 14, 12:23 UTC · 1d agoPolicy & legal

Russian man indicted for spreading malware to 80,000 freelancers

US prosecutors indicted a Russian national for infecting roughly 80,000 freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware via fake freelance-platform accounts.

Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was indicted in California for conspiracy, transmission of malicious code, and aggravated identity theft; he was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and extradited in August 2026. From June 2016 to November 2017, about 255 fake accounts on a Northern California freelance platform messaged roughly 80,000 users with malicious Excel attachments that ran macros to download malware. The campaign deployed TVRAT (also known as TeamSpy), which exploited a TeamViewer flaw, and DarkVNC via VNC Viewer, exfiltrating stolen data to US-hosted command-and-control servers. About half the victims were in the US, and stolen credentials were used for fraud.

Help Net SecuritySep 3, 00:00 UTC · 12d agoPolicy & legal in the wild

CISA review makes the case for eliminating vulnerability classes

CISA's FY2024-2025 vulnerability review urges eliminating recurring vulnerability classes, finding 41.5% of 2025 KEV entries map to persistent 'stubborn weaknesses'.

CISA's Vulnerability Review for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 found most compromises stemmed from opportunistic exploitation of known, exposed vulnerabilities rather than nation-state zero-days or advanced tradecraft. The review found 41.5% of 2025 KEV catalog entries map to 'stubborn weaknesses' - injection flaws, improper input validation, memory-safety failures, path traversal and broken access control - recurring on the CWE Top 25 since 2019. CISA advocates Secure by Design practices, vulnerability class elimination, and buyer-driven 'Secure by Demand' contract requirements, while warning that AI-enabled vulnerability discovery will soon accelerate exploitation.

Help Net SecuritySep 1, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoPolicy & legal

Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration

Axiad survey finds 46% of enterprises lack a single leader for post-quantum cryptography migration despite most maintaining cryptographic inventories.

Axiad research on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness found 75% of respondents maintain continuously updated inventories of certificates, keys, and algorithms, but 46% have no single person owning the migration. About half have never formally assessed whether public-facing infrastructure supports post-quantum key exchange. 67% said the harvest-now-decrypt-later threat is an active priority, with competing priorities, budget constraints, and lack of regulatory guidance cited as top obstacles; executives were more confident than PKI practitioners.

Help Net SecurityAug 21, 00:00 UTC · 25d agoPolicy & legal

US charges 17 Iranian hackers over 31-terabyte academic data theft

US indicts 17 Iranian Mabna Institute hackers who stole 31TB of academic data from universities, companies, and agencies via spearphishing.

The US Department of Justice charged 17 alleged Mabna Institute members, adding eight defendants to the nine charged in 2018, for a 2013-2017 campaign largely conducted for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The group stole over 31TB of academic data and intellectual property from 144 US and 178 foreign universities, at least 42 US companies, and at least five federal and state agencies, compromising about 8,000 of 100,000 spearphished professor email accounts. US universities spent roughly $3.4 billion procuring the stolen data; one defendant also hacked HBO and sought about $6 million in bitcoin ransom. The State Department offers up to $10 million for information on five defendants, none of whom are in US custody.

Help Net SecurityAug 20, 00:00 UTC · 26d agoPolicy & legal in the wild

Police bust cybercrime ring accused of stealing €30 million in four-day spree

German and Brazilian police arrested four over a €30 million bank fraud exploiting a payment provider's faulty software update, seeking three more in Europe.

Operation Klonen executed 21 search-and-seizure warrants across seven Brazilian cities on August 13, arresting four people while three more suspects are pursued in Spain and Bulgaria. The ring exploited a vulnerability in a German payment service provider's booking process, caused by a faulty software update, to carry out unauthorized withdrawals totaling around €30 million within four days starting in late 2023. Funds were moved to Brazil through payment cards issued without consent, pass-through accounts, companies and virtual asset platforms, and courts ordered seizure of assets worth about R$106 million (~$20.7 million). The operation involved Brazil's Polícia Federal, Germany's BKA and the Frankfurt prosecutor's ZIT cybercrime unit.

Help Net SecurityAug 17, 00:00 UTC · 29d agoPolicy & legal