ATHENS, Greece — Disruptive digital attacks, numerous connected to Russian-backed groups, have doubled in the European Union in current months and are likewise targeting election-related services, according to the EU’s top cybersecurity authorities.
Juhan Lepassaar, head of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, or ENISA, informed The Associated Press in an interview that attacks with geopolitical intentions have gradually increased because Russia’s full-blown intrusion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.
“The number of hacktivist attacks (against) European facilities — risk stars whose primary goal is to cause disturbance — has doubled from the 4th quarter of 2023 to the veryfirst quarter of 2024,” Lepassaar stated late Tuesday at the firm’s headoffice in Athens.
“It’s rather a considerable boost,” he stated.
Citizens from the EU’s 27 member states will vote June 6-9 for legislators in the European Parliament in an election that will likewise shape the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission. On Wednesday, Belgian authorities stated cops brought out searches at the house of an worker of the European Parliament and at his workplace in the Parliament’s structure in Brussels over thought Russian disturbance. Elections, likewise due in the United States, Britain and several other nations, have signaled security firms to the risk of disturbance projects moneyed by enemies.
ENISA has led workouts and extreme co