penetrate A simple Phishing attack enabled hackers apparently, in the power of the EU diplomatic service. According to a media report, the procedure is similar to previous attacks from China.
Over the years, have tapped into the Hacker, apparently, the power of the diplomatic service of the European Union, and thousands of documents downloaded. As the New York Times writes, citing a security company, the documents are dispatches to China’s President Xi Jinping, Russia’s head of state Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Iranian nuclear program.
according to The report, it was discovered that the attack by the security firm Area 1, which was the newspaper more than 1100 dispatches. For the majority of documents are summaries of interviews with heads of state and government.
A report by EU diplomats from Moscow summed up, therefore, the Meeting between Putin and Trump in Helsinki in July as a “successful (at least for Putin)”. A further dispatch containing the comprehensive analysis of a conversation between representatives of the EU and Xi, which is cited with the words, Trumps harassment of Beijing resembled a Freestyle Boxing match without any rules. Other papers deal with the situation on the Russian-annexed black sea Peninsula of Crimea.
The Headquarters of the EU Commission. The power of the diplomatic service was not, apparently, sufficiently protected.
It was not that hard
according to The company, the hackers had penetrated through a simple phishing attack in the network. However, you would have stolen any secret documents – these would be sent via a more secure network.
The hackers were also in the networks of the United Nations, as well as Foreign and Finance ministries in the world penetrated. The methods of attack were similar according to Area 1 with the methods of an elite unit of the Chinese military.
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