The European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, also known as EUROCONTROL, has suffered a cyberattack by pro-Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
According to the American newspaper, the cyberattack occurred amid fears that Moscow "could interfere with the region's critical infrastructure as its confrontation with the West escalates."
The Wall Street Journal has also specified that the cyber attack on the EUROCONTROL website began yesterday, April 19, according to a spokeswoman for the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, which has stressed that neither traffic control activities The agency's air force and air mobility have not been affected by this cyberattack.
The European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, EUROCONTROL, born in 1963, is a civil and military intergovernmental organization that has 41 member states from all over Europe, plus Israel and Morocco, and which supports European aviation. Its headquarters are in Belgium and it also has specialized offices in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France.
