A cursor that moves only on the screen. This is how an employee of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain noticed, last Monday, November 14, that something strange was happening on his work computer and notified the technical team.
It was not an anomaly. According to an investigation by the Spanish newspaper ABC, it was precisely a computer attack hackerswhose objective was to enter the SARA network, the network that unites several public administrations to allow the exchange of data, which means that other public organizations may also have been attacked.
The sources heard by ABC clarify that the objective of the hackers was to get to the Analysis department, “where all the economic forecasts are made.” There are all the macroeconomic and microeconomic indicators of the country.
Taking into account the scale of the attack, the sources heard by the newspaper speculate that it should have been carried out by a criminal organization or a State, instead of a hacker act alone. The information accessed contains “very sensitive data”, which can be sold on the Internet. deep websuch as salaries, addresses and phone numbers of specific citizens.
The attack is already being investigated by the National Police and the Spanish secretariat. The researchers do not rule out the possibility that this attack is related to another attack that occurred in October, against a judicial body, to access the databases of the Tax Agency, Internal Administration and Social Security.
Source: Observadora
