Ex-government workers arrested after someone broke into radioactivity alert computer network and disabled sensors
Spain's national police say they have arrested two former government workers suspected of breaking into the computer network of the country's radioactivity alert system and disabling more than a third of its sensors.
The intrusion happened between March and June 2021, and the two suspects worked for a company contracted by Spain's General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies , according to officers. Investigators searched two homes and one company in Madrid and San Agustín de Guadalix, and said they found"numerous computer and communications devices related to the facts investigated.
The year-long probe eventually traced the cyberattack to a computer"in the public-use network of a well-known establishment of hospitality in the center of Madrid," which the cops said allowed them to identify the perpetrators. "During the investigation it was determined that the two detainees had been responsible for the maintenance program of the RAR system, through a company contracted by the DGPCE, for which they had in-depth knowledge of it, which made it easier for them to carry out the attacks and helped them in their efforts to mask their authorship, significantly increasing the difficulty of the investigation," the police said in aLaw enforcement didn't provide additional details about the...
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