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European Space Agency hit by cyberattack, hundreds of GBs data leaked<\/p>\nEuropean Space Agency hit by cyberattack, hundreds of GBs data leaked<\/p>\n
A major cyberattack has struck against the European Space Agency (ESA) with hackers gaining access to their systems and leaking out huge amounts of their classified data. This recent attack is a reason for concern for the cybersecurity of the space domain, as the problem seems to be increasing for the space agencies and firms.<\/p>\n
The attack is related to stolen scientific data, proprietary software, credentials, and internal mission files, with connections to Airbus, SpaceX, and Thales Alenia Space.<\/p>\n
Reportedly, the initial hack occurred on Boxing Day, where a hacker with the handle \u201c888\u201d released over 200 gigabytes of data connected to the ESA. This followed a group calling itself Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters claiming responsibility for a hack where a total of about 500 gigabytes were released.<\/p>\n
The hacking group said this was possible because of the known security bug that had not yet been fixed. The ESA has indeed opened a criminal investigation into this incident.<\/p>\n
Experts explain these cyberattacks usually target poor cyber-hygiene practices, such as password reuse or infostealer malware. A malicious tool may steal login details, session cookies, and classified documents without alerting users.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although ESA claimed there is \u201ccurrently no direct operational threat\u201d, experts believe multiple data leaks may reveal strategic information.<\/p>\n
Experts on security state that there could be potential risks either within ESA’s systems or those of contracted third-party companies. It is noticeable that the interrelated nature of the space sector could mean that with just a single weak link, there exists the potential for more widespread vulnerability.<\/p>\n
Cases of cyberattacks on space organisations are rising in number. Both ESA and NASA have been targets in numerous attempts to break into their systems in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Space Agency hit by cyberattack, hundreds of GBs data leaked A major cyberattack has struck against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-240327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}