EuRepoC News

"Security through Obfuscation" Final Report: The German Foundation for Peace Research has now published the final report on the EuRepoC predecessor project "Security through Obfuscation: Why Governments Use Proxies in Cyber Conflicts" at Heidelberg University. In the report, Sebastian Harnisch and Kerstin Zettl-Schabath present the HD-CY.CON cyberconflict dataset and shed light on autocratic and democratic proxy use in cyberspace.
EuRepoC at CyCon: Our researchers Jakob Bund, Kerstin Zettl-Schabath and Martin Müller led a workshop focusing on the complexities of cyber conflict data at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) on 30.05.2023.
New APT Profile - UNC1151: A new APT Profile focusing on UNC1151 is now available on our website: here. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
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EuRepoC Cyber Conflict Briefing - March 2023: Our monthly briefings summarise the key trends, dynamics, and findings on cyber incidents as recorded by EuRepoC in a given month. The March 2023 briefing is available here. The German edition is published in collaboration with the Tagesspiegel Cybersecurity Background, accessible here.
EuRepoC at the European Police Congress: Annegret Bendiek engaged in a panel discussion with government and business representatives on the current cyber threat situation and new EU regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act and the NIS2 Directive.
EuRepoC and the Stimson Center Cyber Accountability Workshop: Martin Müller recently represented EuRepoC in Washington, D.C. at the "Unpacking Cyber Accountability" workshop co-hosted by the Stimson Center and EU Cyber Direct.
New Spotlight Article: In their new Spotlight Article, "One Year of Hostilities in Ukraine: Nine Notes on Cyber Operations," Dr. Kerstin Zettl-Schabath and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Harnisch discuss developments and lessons learned on cyber conflict dynamics from the war in Ukraine, drawing from the EuRepoC database to inform their analysis. You can find it at our Cyber Unpacked page.
EuRepoC in Auswärtiges Amt Podcast: Annegret Bendiek was a guest speaker in a recent podcast by the German Foreign Ministry on the topic of German Cyber Diplomacy, together with Cyber Ambassador Grienberger and other experts. Listen to the podcast here
New Major Cyber Incident: The EuRepoC team has posted a new Major Cyber Incident (MaCI) on our website: NotPetya. You can read more about Major Cyber Incidents here.
EuRepoC in Behörden Spiegel: Kim Schuck and Martin Müller were recently featured in Behörden Spiegel, in which they outlined the goals and functions of EuRepoC. You can read it here on page 30 or in our Cyber Unpacked publication series.
New Opinion Piece: In their Opinion Piece, "With a little help from my friends? Cyber assistance and Ukraine’s successful cyber defence," Martin Müller and Sebastian Harnisch shed light on the political and legal implications for supporting states of providing cyber assistance to Ukraine.
EU Media Tracker: The first issue of the EuRepoC EU Media Reporting Tracker is now available: EU Media Tracker - Jan 2023.
New APT Profile: The EuRepoC team has posted a new APT Profile on our website: APT 29. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
New Major Cyber Incident: The EuRepoC team has posted a new Major Cyber Incident (MaCI) on our website: BAPCO/DUSTMAN. You can read more about Major Cyber Incidents here.
New APT Profile: The EuRepoC team has posted a new APT Profile on our website: APT 28. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
New APT Profile: The EuRepoC team has posted a new APT Profile on our website: Gamaredon. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
New APT Profile: The EuRepoC team has posted a new APT Profile on our website: Turla. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
EuRepoC OEWG Intervention: Matthias Kettemann recently made an intervention on behalf of EuRepoC to the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies (OEWG). You can read it here.
New APT Profile: The EuRepoC team has posted a new APT Profile on our website: APT 1. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
New APT Profile: The EuRepoC team has posted a new APT Profile on our website: Conti/Wizard Spider. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
New Spotlight Article: In her Spotlight Article, "Turning the tables on the attackers: how to hack the hackers’ supply chains," Kerstin Zettl-Schabath discusses options to disrupt cybercrime services. You can read it and other analyses at our Cyber Unpacked page.
New APT Profiles: The EuRepoC team has posted two new APT Profiles on our website: Energetic Bear and Equation Group. You can read more about Advanced Persistent Threat groups here.
EuRepoC at the European Cyber Security Day: Kim Schuck and Jakob Bund presented EuRepoC at ESET's European Cyber Security Day.
Launch Event in Brussels: Our team presented EuRepoC at our official launch event in Brussels.
EU Cyber Diplomacy between Facts and Norms:
EuRepoC Launches in Brussels

By Annegret Bendiek and Matthias C. Kettemann

On Monday, November 7th, the European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC) was launched at the Permanent Representation of Germany in Brussels. The project’s team presented the Repository’s approach to an assembly of cyber experts, ambassadors, and the European cyber policy community, with whom they discussed the question: “What are the key characteristics of the project?”

Raising awareness: A key element of the project is its awareness-raising function. It provides facts and figures to ensure digestible information to both the general public and experts, while also ensuring highly-informed responses to large-scale cyber incidents among 27 EU member states. The project avoids the bias of media attention and the media’s focus on the most recent, the most spectacular, or the most “interesting” attacks.

Building trust: EuRepoC’s open-source database and transparent, politically-independent analytical capacity strengthen what is lacking in the political side of EU institutions. The project is science-led and analysis-focused, providing law- and social-science-based added epistemological and normative value to cybersecurity discourse. In light of the often-criticised lack of trust and cooperation, even between like-minded states, the project’s trust-building tools are essential to creating shared situational awareness, which is necessary for the Strategic Compass and all coordinated action on the EU level.

Informing politics: EuRepoC provides a database for EU cyber diplomacy actors. The project does not consider itself primarily part of the fight against classical cybercrime. The project’s fundamental ambition is to provide structured data and real-time analytics on crucial cybersecurity challenges while strengthening cyber diplomacy in the Common Foreign and Security Policy field. EuRepoC provides important insights for applying the Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox, thus contributing to the evolution of norms that make cyber diplomacy more predictable and responsive.

Ensuring validation: EuRepoC is an output-oriented, interdisciplinary analytical project which ensures validation through open-source intelligence and radical transparency. The project focuses on knowledge-gathering, insights, and analysis for different communities, rather than fact- and truth-finding. The project expects its analytical outputs to be contested and its normative conclusions to be questioned. Therefore, EuRepoC commits itself to the highest standards of due diligence.

Annegret Bendiek (SWP Berlin) and Matthias C. Kettemann (University of Innsbruck) are principal investigators for EuRepoC.

EuRepoC in Directions Blog: Matthias Schulze was recently featured in the Directions Blog, in which he discusses the value of EuRepoC's data-based approach in creating a more well-rounded EU cyber diplomacy framework. You can find it here.
EuRepoC in the Lawfare Blog: Matthias Schulze was recently featured in the Lawfare Blog, in which he contextualises the importance of the EuRepoC project for studying conflicts. You can find it here.
EuRepoC in the Tagesspiegel: Our team recently gave an interview to Tagesspiegel. You can find the paywalled article here.
Online Launch Event: On 14. November 2022, our team hosted our Online Launch Event from 14.00-15.00 CET. You can find out more and register here.


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The European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC) is an independent research consortium that is dedicated to providing evidence-based scientific analysis of cyber incidents, making way for a better understanding of our current cyber threat environment. Its resources include user-specific, reliable data based on an interdisciplinary perspective, which aims to make this research network a public information forum on cyber incidents, their characteristics, and relevant trends.