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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.
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.
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.
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'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...
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...
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 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...
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 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