Officials from EU anti-fraud office were allegedly followed, wiretapped and had their laptops hacked by Hungary’s intelligence agency.
Les services de l’Assemblée nationale ont alerté l’ensemble des députés après le piratage.
The president and former prime minister were among targets of hackers selling highly sensitive data.
Italian probe reveals “gigantic and alarming market of confidential data,” prosecutors say.
Devices are kept in vault during weekly gatherings, prime minister said.
Arrest warrants for Pavel and Nikolai Durov were issued months earlier than previously known.
The campaign suggested Iran was to blame. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation.
One day at the dawn of the 1980s, an FBI agent in his 30s named Rick Smith walked into the Balboa Café, an ornate, historic watering hole in San Francisco’s leafy Cow Hollow neighborhood. Smith, who was single at the time, lived nearby and regularly frequented the spot.
As he approached the oak wood bar to order a drink he suddenly spotted a familiar face — someone Smith had met about a year before, after the man had walked into the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco. He was Austrian by birth, but a denizen of Silicon Valley, an entrepreneur who operated as a middleman between American tech companies and European countries hungry for the latest hi-tech goods.
A senior official previously condemned the platform for ‘censoring’ Hamas-related content.
The attack comes a few days after a coordinated arson assault on the French rail network.
Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscow’s behalf.
Hackers linked to Beijing’s security services targeted European politicians to gather sensitive data.
Disappearance of sensitive files of top law enforcement officials has sparked a crisis at Europol.
G7 is drafting a workaround to use frozen assets to rebuild Ukraine.
New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how.
A recent Chinese-linked hack of U.S. government emails detected in June may have gone unnoticed for much longer were it not for an enterprising government IT analyst.
A State Department cybersecurity expert spearheaded an effort to implant a custom warning mechanism into the agency’s network more than two years ago in anticipation of future hacks, the officials said, shedding new light on how they spotted the breach, top State Department officials told POLITICO.
The bureau is trying to take the fight to foreign ransomware gangs, even if it means giving up on bringing some of them behind bars.
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‘Democracy and rule of law are at stake,’ says MEP Saskia Bricmont.
Rules for industries and governments aim to prevent all-out cyber breakdown.
