{"id":142595,"date":"2022-07-21T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/eu-warns-of-russian-cyberattack-spillover-escalation-risks"},"modified":"2022-07-21T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:22:19","slug":"eu-warns-of-russian-cyberattack-spillover-escalation-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/eu-warns-of-russian-cyberattack-spillover-escalation-risks","title":{"rendered":"EU warns of Russian cyberattack spillover, escalation risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eu-warns-of-russian-cyberattack-spillover-escalation-risks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Council of the European Union (EU) said today that Russian hackers and hacker groups increasingly attacking \u201cessential\u201d organizations worldwide could lead to spillover risks and potential escalation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis increase in malicious cyber activities, in the context of the war against Ukraine, creates unacceptable risks of spillover effects, misinterpretation and possible escalation,\u201d the High Representative on behalf of the EU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2022\/07\/19\/declaration-by-the-high-representative-on-behalf-of-the-european-union-on-malicious-cyber-activities-conducted-by-hackers-and-hacker-groups-in-the-context-of-russia-s-aggression-against-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against several EU Member States and partners claimed by pro-Russian hacker groups are yet another example of the heightened and tense cyber threat landscape that EU and its Member States have observed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of the European Union (EU) said today that Russian hackers and hacker groups increasingly attacking \u201cessential\u201d organizations worldwide could lead to spillover risks and potential escalation. \u201cThis increase in malicious cyber activities, in the context of the war against Ukraine, creates unacceptable risks of spillover effects, misinterpretation and possible escalation,\u201d the High Representative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}