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Our analyses of the dark and deep webs, published since 2021: what is sold there, what hides there, and what the European frameworks change for companies. Articles are published in French.
1 April 2026 · 3 min
Operation Alice: a full-scale takedown on the dark web
On 20 March 2026, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt – BLKA) announced the takedown and seizure of 373,000 onion domains on the dark web’s Tor network, in an operation coordinated by Europol with the participation of France’s OFMIN (Office for the Protection of Minors).
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7 May 2025 · 5 min
OSINT: a double-edged weapon
In a world where information travels at very high speed, OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) has established itself as a strategic discipline, somewhere between cybersecurity, competitive intelligence and digital investigation. OSINT covers all the data collected lawfully from open sources…
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30 December 2024 · 4 min
The DORA regulation: 10 essential points
The start of 2025 marks the entry into force of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a European regulation focused on digital operational resilience in the financial sector.
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22 July 2024 · 3 min
IT resilience in the banking and financial sector
IT resilience is the ability of an information system to keep its integrity and recover quickly after an incident — whatever its cause, human or technical. It is put to the test by a technical failure, a natural disaster or a…
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10 April 2024 · 2 min
The EU DORA regulation: what the text says
The Digital Operational Resilience Act is a long and complex piece of European legislation. It runs to 53 articles and 11 annexes, in six parts. Its aim is to strengthen the digital resilience of the financial sector. Adopted in December 2022, it becomes enforceable on 1…
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11 March 2024 · 2 min
The EU DORA regulation: how it comes into force
DORA has been in force since January 2023. Penalties, however, only start in January 2025. The European Digital Operational Resilience Act was adopted in December 2022 to strengthen the operational IT resilience of banking and…
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5 February 2024 · 3 min
The EU DORA regulation: cybersecurity in the financial sector
One year remains to comply with the EU DORA regulation — the Digital Operational Resilience Act. Its purpose is to strengthen the operational IT resilience of banking and financial players.
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16 February 2023 · 6 min
DORA – digital operational resilience
The DORA regulation, which sets out to strengthen the digital operational resilience of banking and financial sector players, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 27 December 2022. From January 2024, financial entities will have one year to comply.
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7 October 2022 · 4 min
What is the dark web?
In the introduction to volume 1 of our white paper, we described the dark web and its content without going into the technical side. Volume 2 largely continues that description of what can be found on the dark web; we do, however, want to add a more technical note…
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