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Greece’s Land Registry agency breached in wave of 400 cyberattacks
2024-07-22 22:46

The Land Registry agency in Greece has announced that it suffered a limited-scope data breach following a wave of 400 cyberattacks targeting its IT infrastructure over the last week. The agency said hackers managed to compromise employee terminals and steal 1.2 GB of data, corresponding to roughly 0.0006% of the total data held by the government organization.

Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone
2023-03-21 08:31

Meta's former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her phone. "The Greek authorities and security services have at no time acquired or used the Predator surveillance software. To suggest otherwise is wrong," Giannis Oikonomou, the government spokesman, said.

Greece's public postal service offline due to ransomware attack
2022-03-22 14:05

ELTA, the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece, has disclosed a ransomware incident detected on Sunday that is still keeping most of the organizations services offline. An initial statement about the attack came on Monday, when ELTA announced the cause of a service disruption, claiming that its immediate response and isolation of the entire data center has helped mitigate the impact.

Greece: Government Websites Hit by Cyberattack
2020-01-24 17:11

The Greek government said Friday that the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said early Friday that the distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack "Led to the malfunction of certain websites." He said "Countermeasures" had been successfully implemented, but gave no further details.

Greece to Extradite Russian Bitcoin Suspect to France
2019-12-20 16:43

Greece's justice ministry has decided to extradite to France Russian Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the bitcoin exchange BTC-e, on suspicion of money laundering, a ministry source said...

Sea Turtle hackers head to the Mediterranean, snag Greece's TLD registrar as a souvenir
2019-07-11 04:48

Chance to hack Hellenic targets better than a bottle of Metaxa Miscreants notorious for hijacking traffic to victims' servers by changing their DNS records have been accused of hacking a top...

Greece: France Wins New Round on Russian Cybercrime Suspect
2018-12-19 15:59

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's supreme court has accepted a French extradition request for a Russian bitcoin fraud suspect, whom the same court has, confusingly, already agreed to extradite to the...

Greece U-Turns — Now Approves Mr. Bitcoin's Extradition To Russia
2018-09-17 10:48

Greece just took another U-turn. Mr. Bitcoin a.k.a. Alexander Vinnik is not going to France nor to the United States; instead, he is now possibly going to his homeland Russia. The Supreme Civil...

Greece Will Send Russian Cybercrime Suspect to France
2018-07-19 08:03

US Accuses Alexander Vinnik of $4 Billion in Bitcoin Money LaunderingA Greek court has ruled that Russian national Alexander Vinnik will be sent to France to face cybercrime charges. The U.S. has...

France Also Interested in Greece's Russian Bitcoin Suspect
2018-06-28 05:36

France has joined the US and Russia in seeking the extradition of a Russian held in Greece for allegedly laundering $4 billion using the bitcoin digital currency, a court source said Wednesday. read more