BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  EU cyberattack may have b
De:       Mike Powell
Data:     Sat, 4 Apr 2026 08:35:18 -0500
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EU cyberattack may have been worse than we thought - 90GB of data published
online as 30 entities hit

Date:
Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:15:00 +0000

Description:
CERT-EU is blaming TeamPCP for the attack, saying the Trivy breach trickled
down.

FULL STORY
The recent cyberattack on the European Commission (EC) may have been a lot
worse than initially thought, as we now know it affected almost 30 different
European Union (EU) entities.

In an updated security notice, the European Unions Cybersecurity Service
(CERT-EU) blamed the intrusion on TeamPCP, and shared more details about what
had happened. The attack saw TeamPCP, a relatively unknown threat actor,
manage to get a malicious version of Trivy into the update stream that users
trust. Trivy is an open source security scanner built by Aqua Security to
detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This malicious version allowed
TeamPCP to obtain an Amazon Web Services (AWS) API key of the European
Commission, which granted them control over other AWS accounts affiliated 
with the EC.  Amazon confirmed this was not a breach of
its own system and that it operates as it should.

Using the stolen AWS secrets, TeamPCP exfiltrated data from the affected 
cloud environment , the EC then confirmed. The exfiltrated data relates to
websites hosted for up to 71 clients of the Europa web hosting service: 42
internal clients of the European Commission, and at least 29 other Union
entities. 

It doesnt name which entities those are, but some of the more notable ones
include the European Parliament, Council of the European Union, and the
European External Action Service. Other agencies that may have been affected
include the European Medicines Agency, European Banking Authority, ENISA, or
Frontex. 

Soon after news of the breach broke, a group known as ShinyHunters claimed 
the incident, saying they nabbed data dumps of mail servers, databases,
confidential documents, contracts, and much more sensitive material. In 
total, the hackers posted 340GB of data, compressed into a 91.7GB archive. 

Analysis of the published dataset has so far confirmed the presence of
personal data, including lists of names, last names, usernames, and email
addresses, predominantly from the European Commissions websites but
potentially pertaining to users across multiple Union entities, EU-CERT said. 

The dataset also contains at least 51,992 files related to outbound email
communications, the majority of which are automated notifications with little
to no content. 

 Via BleepingComputer

Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/eu-cyberattack-may-have-been-worse-than
-we-thought-90gb-of-data-published-online-as-30-entities-hit

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