US EditionEuropean Commission investigating breach after Amazon cloud hack
- On Friday, the European Commission confirmed it is investigating a cyberattack on its Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa web platform.
- This incident appears linked to attacks on the Dutch Data Protection Authority and Valtori that exploited code-injection vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile software.
- BleepingComputer reported earlier this week that a threat actor claimed to steal over 350 GB of data and intends to leak it online rather than extort the Commission.
- The Commission has taken immediate steps to contain the attack and implemented risk mitigation measures, while spokesperson Nika Blazevic confirmed internal systems were not affected.
- Last week, the Council of the European Union sanctioned three Chinese and Iranian companies for cyberattacks, following the Commission's January 20 cybersecurity legislation proposal.
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Європейська правдаThe European Commission has reported a cyberattack on the Europa.eu platform that occurred on March 24. According to preliminary data, attackers were able to access part of the data of the web resource, but the internal systems of the Commission were not affected.
The extent of the hack is still unclear. According to the European Commission, the consequences are limited due to swift action.
European Commission confirms data breach
The European Commission has announced that it suffered a cyber attack that affected "cloud infrastructure hosting the Commission's web presence on the Europea.eu platform." While the attack has been contained, Bleeping Computer reports that the threat actor claiming to be behind it was able to take over 350GB of data before the Commission addressed the issue. "Early findings of our ongoing investigation suggest that data have been taken from [Eu…
A cyberattack on the Europa.eu platform, which is the central hub of the EU institutions, has put the authorities on alert, with indications of a data leak - The investigation is ongoing - It is not known who is behind the attack
The European Commission was referring to a cyberattack and has already confirmed that there was data theft, although it is still assessing the overall impact.
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