The United States proposed to collaborate with Portugal in the field of cybersecurity, after the cyberattack against the General Staff of the Armed Forces that exposed NATO documents, said the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs (MNE).
João Gomes Cravinho met this Thursday, in Washington, with the North American National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, and with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, a moment that he took advantage of to address the cyberattack, indicating that the spirits are more serene.
“We had the opportunity to speak briefly [sobre o ciberataque] with Jake Sullivan, a little more with Antony Blinken. The atmosphere is very calm, because, as Blinken pointed out, quite honestly, this is a field in which we are all learning. We all have vulnerabilities and we have to support each other,” the MNE told Portuguese journalists at the end of the meeting with Blinken.
“We are very pleased with some American proposals on ways to work with us, to close doors and windows that may be open. This is a very technical field, very complex, and our experts are working very hard in collaboration with NATO, in collaboration with allies like the United States. And, therefore, what we did here was simply verify the availability to continue with this good collaboration that we have been having”, added the EMN.
Public Ministry opens investigation into cyberattack that uncovered NATO documents
The Public Ministry opened this week an investigation linked to the cyberattack against the General Staff of the Armed Forces in which classified NATO documents were extracted and put up for sale in the darkwebindicated the Attorney General of the Republic.
According to Diário de Notícias last week, the Portuguese government was informed of the situation by the US intelligence services, through the embassy in Lisbon, through a communication made directly to the Prime Minister, António Costa, last August. .
The same newspaper mentioned that this case is considered “extremely serious” and that it was US cyberspies who detected “for sale in dark spider web hundreds of documents sent by NATO to Portugal, classified as secret and confidential”.
Source: Observadora
