Spotted for sale on the darkweb – The incident was picked up by the CIA, which informed the Portuguese authorities in August
Hundreds of classified documents he had sent the NATO in Portugal were spotted for sale at darkweb following a cyber attack against the country’s armed forces general staff and the military’s Intelligence Service, Diario de Noticias reported today.
“It is about a cyber attackwhich went on for a long time and went unnoticed, by bots programmed to detect these kinds of documents,” said one of the anonymous sources cited by the newspaper.
According to Diario de Noticias, the documents in question had been exchanged between various Portuguese agencies over unsecured lines of communication.
Always according to the Portuguese newspaper, the incident was noticed by the American Intelligence services (C.I.A), who informed the Portuguese authorities about it in August through the US embassy in Lisbon.
Research of cyber security services of Portugal identified as targets of the attack the general staff of the armed forces, the intelligence service of the army and an agency of the Ministry of Defense.
“The government is able to ensure that the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces work every day to keep Portugal’s credibility as a founding member of the Atlantic Union intact,” Prime Minister Antonio Costa said.
“Every time there is a suspected breach (…) the situation is analyzed in depth” and measures are taken “to strengthen cyber security”, the Portuguese government added, without however confirming or denying the newspaper’s information.
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