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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it

A new measurement study of web tracking across ten countries offers a reality check for anyone working on privacy compliance. Researchers crawled the same set of globally popular websites from virtual machines located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, and California. The results show that European privacy law does…

UAC-0252 Attack Detection: SHADOWSNIFF and SALATSTEALER Fuel Phishing Campaigns in Ukraine

Since January 2026, CERT-UA has been tracking a series of intrusions attributed to UAC-0252 and built around SHADOWSNIFF and SALATSTEALER infostealers. The campaigns rely on well-crafted phishing lures, payload staging on legitimate infrastructure, and user-driven execution of disguised EXE files. Detect UAC-0252 Attacks Covered in CERT-UA#20032 According to the Phishing Trends Q2 2025 research by…

Java security work is becoming a daily operational burden

Security teams in large enterprises already spend significant time tracking vulnerabilities across software supply chains, third-party libraries, and internal codebases. Java environments add another layer of exposure because so many mission-critical systems still run on the JVM. A 2026 Azul survey of more than 2,000 Java professionals found that 64% said more than half of…