The EU is suffering a hacking crisis. Here’s what we know

(Sam Clark and Antoaneta Roussi – Politico) European Union officials have tumbled into a cyber crisis after attacks hit its digital systems and officials’ phones. Cyber experts are probing to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes. The EU executive has told some of its most senior officials to shut down a group on messaging app Signal over fears it was a hacking target, POLITICO first reported on Thursday. The move comes as the EU faced a string of attacks in the last few months that led to breaches of its cloud infrastructure and an IT system managing mobile devices. “The EU is finally discovering its security weaknesses … spending billions on useless things, not investing in critical issues,” said one Western intelligence official briefed on the situation, granted anonymity to disclose information that has not been disclosed publicly. It’s still unclear if the string of incidents are related. The Commission has released few details on the hacks and declined to comment in detail on sensitive security questions. Cyberattacks can be hard to investigate — and finding out who is behind them is a sensitive, tricky process. – The EU is suffering a hacking crisis. Here’s what we know. – POLITICO