Cyber attacks: NATO and the European Commission check their IT systems
NATO and the European Commission check their IT systems after a major cyber attack in the United States.
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The North Atlantic Organization and the European Commission, two institutions based in Brussels, have announced that they are checking their computer systems after a massive cyberattack against US government agencies, for which Washington accuses Moscow of being responsible.
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With our correspondent in Brussels,
Joana Hostein
At this stage, neither the security of NATO's networks nor that of the European Commission has been compromised.
This is what the respective spokespersons of the institutions based in the Belgian capital declared.
Several American agencies affected
Both use Orion software from the American firm SolarWinds in some of their computer systems.
It is this software that is the basis of a major cyberattack that hit several government agencies in the United States.
Since March, the tens of thousands of companies and administrations around the world that installed certain versions of Orion software in their computer networks have unknowingly opened a door for hackers.
The president of Microsoft informed, on Thursday, about forty customers using the Orion platform.
Most of these customers are based in the United States, but some are also located in Canada, Mexico, Spain and Belgium.
Hence the verifications undertaken by NATO and the European Commission.
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