Sam Clark

2 months ago | politico.eu | Sam Clark |Victor Jack

Europe’s Baltics are bracing for cyberattacks as they plan to decouple from a Soviet-era joint power grid with Russia and Belarus in 10 days’ time. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will flip the switch on Feb. 9, disconnecting themselves from a regional electricity grid known as BRELL, and will switch to a European Union regional network instead. The move has been years in the making — but now that the time has come, security officials are bracing for retaliation from Moscow.

2 months ago | politico.eu | Sam Clark

Swedish investigators have found that bad weather, deficient equipment and poor seamanship were responsible for the latest Baltic Sea cable disruption — not sabotage. Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, from Sweden’s National Security Unit, said in a statement Monday that the vessel that broke an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden on Jan. 26 “clearly” did not do so as an act of sabotage.

2 months ago | politico.eu | Sam Clark |Laurens Cerulus

Italy’s data protection authority has ordered a block on Chinese artificial intelligence revelation DeepSeek, it said late on Thursday. The regulator said it has ordered Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence — the Chinese companies behind the DeepSeek chatbot — to stop processing Italians’ data with immediate effect. The move comes after DeepSeek apparently told the authorities it wouldn’t cooperate with a request for information made by the agency.

Jan 15, 2025 | politico.eu | Sam Clark

The European Union is ramping up support, an early-warning system and a rapid response teams to help its hospitals fight off cyberattacks from hacker groups, it said Wednesday. The European Commission unveiled a new “action plan” on cybersecurity for hospitals and the health care sector, in response to a spate of devastating attacks that hit Ireland, France, the United Kingdom, Finland and other countries since the start of the coronavirus pandemic early 2020.

Jan 14, 2025 | politico.eu | Sam Clark |Giedre Peseckyte

The European Union is coming to the aid of hospitals and health care providers to help fend off rising cyberattacks that have plagued the critical sector. The European Commission will present an “action plan” on strengthening cybersecurity in the sector on Wednesday. It’s expected to include additional funding dedicated to testing and securing hospitals’ technical infrastructure, guidance on how to apply existing rules such as the EU’s NIS2 cybersecurity directive and better information-sharing.