Source: John Leydon, The Register
The EU has admitted to having been hit by a deep, penetrating cyber-attack.
The admission comes days before an EU summit on economic strategies and the conflict in Libya are due to top the agenda.
Official details on the attack are scant. Eurocrats would only say that the Commission and External Action Service had been hit by an attack along the same lines as a recent assault on France’s finance ministry in December, which, in turn, came weeks before a G20 summit in Paris. Around 150 of the French ministry’s 170,000 computers were reportedly affected by that assault, which involved targeted email and malware.