Attacks with geopolitical motives have steadily risen since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the EU cybersecurity chief said.
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00:00Russia-backed groups are targeting EU digital infrastructure and election services, warns
00:08a cybersecurity watchdog.
00:10European Union Agency for Cybersecurity top boss, Johan Lapassart, said geopolitically
00:16motivated attacks are escalating at an alarming rate.
00:20If you look at the threat landscape overall, one of the things that we have observed is
00:24that the number of hacktivists attack to European infrastructure.
00:29So these are threat actors whose main aim is to call disruption, has doubled from fourth
00:37quarter 2023 to first quarter 2034.
00:42EU cybersecurity agencies have emphasised that AI-enabled disinformation threatens democracy,
00:48Lapassart added, which could cast a large cloud over the upcoming EU elections.
00:55I think one of the big issues is the information manipulation and disinformation campaigns
01:03that we've seen over Europe that are linked with threat actors who align themselves with
01:09the cause of the Russian government in connection with the Russian war of aggression, try to
01:17portray and sway European voters in certain direction, misinform them.
01:24Members from 27 EU member states will head to the ballot box this June to elect the European
01:31Parliament lawmakers that will shape the EU's Executive Commission.