Cyberattacks Surge: Europe & Major Firms Hit

The notorious ShinyHunters group has unleashed a widespread ransomware campaign, compromising high-profile targets including Vimeo, Udemy, and Medtronic. This campaign notably led to the theft of over 119,000 Vimeo users' personal data via a third-party vendor, with ShinyHunters claiming responsibility after a failed extortion attempt.

A widespread ransomware campaign by the ShinyHunters group is impacting various industries, with Vimeo, Udemy, and Medtronic among the latest high-profile victims, as reported by Cybersecurity Insiders.
Specifically, Vimeo confirmed a breach via a third-party vendor, leading to the theft of personal information belonging to over 119,000 people, according to Security Affairs. BleepingComputer noted that ShinyHunters claimed responsibility after failing to extort the company, stating, "Your Snowflake and Bigquery instances data was compromised thanks to Anodot.com."
The ShinyHunters campaign also claimed to have stolen 1.4 million records from Udemy, and Medtronic confirmed that certain corporate IT systems were compromised, as detailed by Paubox.
Cyberthreats are escalating across Europe, prompting warnings from Europol, which highlighted an "increasingly industrialized cybercrime landscape driven by AI, ransomware and large-scale data theft" in its IOCTA 2026 report.
In France, authorities detained a 15-year-old individual suspected of hacking into a national agency's systems and attempting to sell millions of stolen records, Cybernews reported.
Italy has faced significant infrastructure attacks, with a breach at Sistemi Informativi, an IBM Italy subsidiary, raising concerns about Chinese-linked cyber operations, according to Security Affairs.