Password Manager Used by EU Governments Shared Software Pipeline With Russian Firm, Investigation Finds
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Password Manager Used by EU Governments Shared Software Pipeline With Russian Firm, Investigation Finds
European Union institutions used a password manager advertised as a home-grown European cybersecurity product, even as it remained technically tied to software in Russia through a shared development history, synchronised updates and infrastructure linked to its original founders, an international investigation has found. The investigation, published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its media partners, examined …
Passwork advertises with European roots and data sovereignty. An international search, however, draws a more complicated picture and raises questions about the origin of the software as well as about its update supply chain.
Spanish password manager Passwork Europe SL, which is used by a number of European organizations, developed two Russians from a company in UAE. This creates critical vulnerability to customers in the service in Europe, as stated in the OPCRP investigation. Communication with Russia. Initially, the Passwork service, whose software allows the storage of digital password keys on its software, appeared as the startup of the inhabitants of Archangels…
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