The Police are investigating an alleged computer attack on Podemos, in which data from people enrolled in said training and other economic data have been stolen, as elDiario.es has advanced and EL PAÍS has confirmed from police sources. The cyberattack, perpetrated in the middle of this month of March as denounced by the party, allowed hackers
to
obtain some 30 million gigabytes of information on names, surnames, ID numbers, telephone numbers and addresses of members, according to what the alleged authors presumed. of the attack on the
dark web (dark web)
. On those same dates, the CDU (Germany's largest political party) and other European political groups were attacked, according to Google's subsidiary Mandiant, dedicated to cybersecurity, which links these attacks to Russia. The International Monetary Fund, Air Europa, Fujitsu, Microsoft, several Scottish hospitals, numerous French official services and the Sant Antoni City Council (Ibiza) also reported attacks on their servers on those days.
Podemos reported the possible intrusion into its servers on the 21st, after the hackers bragged about it on social networks, even posting a screenshot with the current logo of the group, supposedly stolen data folders and a mocking message in English of how easy it had been for them to find vulnerabilities.
The complaint from the Ione Belarra party for “illegal access to the Podemos party server with the theft of information” was registered at the Retiro police station in Madrid, as confirmed by police sources. Cybercrime Group VII has taken charge of the investigations.
Investigators have traced the attack to Moldova, but are convinced that it is a point to mask the true perpetrator of the cyberattack. This coincided with an alert from security services around the world of a wave of attacks coming from Russia, aimed at paralyzing essential services, but also to trade with stolen data or demand ransoms for releasing the servers.
The purple formation has not provided more information about the economic or registration data that could have been stolen from its databases during the attack on the Podemos.info
server
. At the moment the name of the
malware
(computer virus) used to capture data
has not been provided .
This is the first known attack of this type on a Spanish political party, and comes after the alert for the intrusion campaign that political parties in Germany have suffered so far this month by hackers from the APT29 group. The cyberattack began with the mass sending of an email, with identity theft, that contained an invitation to a dinner on March 1 with CDU militants and which, in turn, invited people to click on a dangerous or malicious link. After that, Mandiant warned of the “great threat to European and other Western political parties across the political spectrum” posed by the APT29 group.
One of the best-known attacks of the February and March wave was the one suffered by the IMF, which was detected on February 16 and put 11 of the organization's email accounts at risk. The Japanese giant Fujitsu confirmed on the 19th a theft of customer data, without further details. At the beginning of February, numerous official French computer services were victims of a cyberattack of "unprecedented intensity" claimed by a group calling itself Anonymous Sudan, supported by Russia and various Islamist groups, Efe reports. According to sources from the French Executive, the attack began at the weekend through “classic methods” to disable computer services, although of an intensity not known until now in the country.
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