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Europe’s cyber emergency is no longer defined by the sophistication of individual malware families. It is defined by concentration: a single compromised identity, cloud administrator, software supplier or recovery platform can interrupt thousands of transactions and disable services that carry legal and economic authority. Romania’s land-registry crisis exposed this new frontier with unusual clarity. The…

Qilin ransomware gang has publicly claimed that it successfully targeted the servers of a U.S. federal agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). According to the cybercriminal group, the alleged attack resulted in the exposure and potential leakage of sensitive information from the agency’s systems. The claim has raised concerns because the…