Disruptive attacks double in EU in recent months, cybersecurity chief says

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Attacks with geopolitical motives have steadily risen since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU cybersecurity chief said.

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00:00Russia-backed groups are targeting EU digital infrastructure and election services, warns

00:08a cybersecurity watchdog.

00:10European Union Agency for Cybersecurity top boss, Johan Lapassart, said geopolitically

00:16motivated attacks are escalating at an alarming rate.

00:20If you look at the threat landscape overall, one of the things that we have observed is

00:24that the number of hacktivists attack to European infrastructure.

00:29So these are threat actors whose main aim is to call disruption, has doubled from fourth

00:37quarter 2023 to first quarter 2034.

00:42EU cybersecurity agencies have emphasised that AI-enabled disinformation threatens democracy,

00:48Lapassart added, which could cast a large cloud over the upcoming EU elections.

00:55I think one of the big issues is the information manipulation and disinformation campaigns

01:03that we've seen over Europe that are linked with threat actors who align themselves with

01:09the cause of the Russian government in connection with the Russian war of aggression, try to

01:17portray and sway European voters in certain direction, misinform them.

01:24Members from 27 EU member states will head to the ballot box this June to elect the European

01:31Parliament lawmakers that will shape the EU's Executive Commission.

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