Security News > 2021 > May > Belgium’s Interior Ministry uncovers 2-year-long compromise of its network

Belgium's Federal Public Service Interior has suffered a "Complex, sophisticated and targeted cyberattack."

When Microsoft released out-of-band security updates for Exchange Server in early March to fix zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by the Hafnium threat actor, the FBS Interior called in the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium to help with the patching of their Exchange servers.

"The complexity of this attack indicates an actor who has cyber capacities and extensive resources. The perpetrators acted in a targeted manner, which sounds like espionage," the FPS Interior noted.

The FPS Interior hosts databases related to the country's police services, immigration affairs, the organization of the elections and the distribution of identity cards, Belgian news outfit VRT NWS pointed out.

The CCB says that citizens and the services provided by the Interior have not be affected by the attack, but the attacker has access to local data.

FPS Interior says that their systems have been cleaned and that important information has been secured, and that they have started a complete modernization of their IT infrastructure "With a view to optimizing security as much as possible."

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