Cyber Crime
Education
Greece Orders Probe into Exam System Cyber-Attacks
Greece's Supreme Court launched on Tuesday an urgent investigation into the cyber-attacks targeting the Greek high school exams that were interrupted two days running.
Following a second cyber-attack on the data bank providing the exam questions, Supreme Court Public Prosecutor...
Crime
Russian Spies “Stole the Blueprint” of Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine
UK security services alleged that they have evidence that Russian spies stole the blueprint for the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in order to develop the Sputknik V vaccine, according to a report published by The Sun on Sunday.
Former security minister James Brokenshire,...
Crime
Greek Supreme Court to Decide Russia Hacking Suspect's Extradition on Dec.13
Greece's Supreme Court will decide on Dec. 13 whether to extradite a Russian to the United States where authorities want to put him on trial for laundering $4 billion via a bitcoin platform.
Alexander Vinnik, who says he is a...
Crime
Cyber-crime Police Warn Greeks About International Spam Calls and Texts
The cyber-crime division of the Greek Police (CCD) warned Greek citizens on Wednesday not to answer cellphone calls or SMS text messages by phone numbers with the prefixes 00387 and 00960, as they are being used by cyber criminals...
Greece
Facebook Thanks Greek Cyber Crime Unit
With a long announcement, Facebook thanked the Greek Police and especially the Cyber Crime Unit for the arrest of two Greek hackers, 31 and 27 years old, who created the virus "Lecpetex" that damaged thousands of computers around the world.
Facebook administration stated that...
Crime
Ukrainian Charged In Theft of 2M E-mails
Greek police arrested a 47-year-old Ukrainian who owned an electronics shop in the center of Athens and charged him with stealing 2 million e-mails from the Taxis system, which had been even grouped and classified according to their commercial...