World

More than 300 arrests as African countries clamp down on cyber threats

April 12, 2025

LYON, France — Authorities in seven African countries have arrested 306 suspects and seized 1,842 devices in an international operation targeting cyber attacks and cyber-enabled scams. The arrests were made [..]

Latvia

Government websites facing intense cyber attacks

August 21, 2024

Due to intensive cyber attacks, the websites of the Unified Web Platform (TVP) periodically experience malfunctions – slow operation or inaccessibility of the sites, the Cabinet of Ministers informed LETA. [..]

Latvia

Cyber threats no longer at 2022 levels – Cert.lv

June 7, 2024

Latvia has a high level of cyber threat, but it is not as high as it was in 2022, said Baiba Kaskina, head of the information technology (IT) security incident [..]

Estonia

Fixed home loan interest rates could become cheaper than floating rates

May 14, 2024

Although last week alone, the security filters of Telia Estonia blocked nearly a million cyberattacks from assets located mainly in the United States, Poland and Canada, there’s an increasing number [..]

Estonia

Telia survey: Growing numbers of Estonian businesses consider cyber attack unlikely

May 14, 2024

Latvia

Cyber threats to remain at current levels or even increase slightly in the coming years – Tele2

April 23, 2024

In the coming years, cyber threats will remain at the current level or even slightly increase, Valdis Vancovics, Chairman of the Board of the mobile operator Tele2, told LETA in [..]

Estonia

Estonian cybersecurity exec: Apotheka attack should have been made public earlier

April 8, 2024

Jurgen Erm, head of the Estonian cybersecurity firm CYBERS, says the cyber attack on the loyal customer database of the Apotheka pharmacy chain in January should have been made public [..]

Latvia

Half of the population in Latvia lacks knowledge about cyber security risks – survey

April 2, 2024

Almost half or 49 percent of the population in Latvia do not know how to protect themselves in the digital environment, or their knowledge is incomplete, according to a survey [..]

Estonia

Telia Estonia: Volume of denial-of-service attacks has quadrupled in recent months

January 17, 2024

The cybersecurity situation in Estonia in 2023 was affected by increased attempts by criminals and political groups to congest the internet traffic devices of businesses and organizations with DDoS, or [..]

Interviews

Access to company data can pose threats to Latvia’s security

December 14, 2023

By journalist Inga Karlinska. By January 2020, European Union member states were required to implement anti-money laundering laws, which, among other things, included the introduction of public registers of beneficial [..]

Latvia

Cyber attacks in Latvia to remain high – Cert.lv

October 2, 2023

The number of cyber attacks in Latvia will remain high in the future, said Baiba Kaskina, head of the information technology security incident prevention institution Cert.lv, in an interview on [..]