International Criminal Court hit with cyber security attack

THE HAGUE – The International Criminal Court has been targeted by a “sophisticated” cyberattack and is taking measures to bounds immoderate damage, the planetary tribunal announced Monday.

The ICC, which besides was deed by a cyberattack successful 2023, said the latest incidental had been contained but did not elaborate further connected the interaction oregon imaginable motive.

“A Court-wide interaction investigation is being carried out, and steps are already being taken to mitigate immoderate effects of the incident,” the tribunal said successful a statement.

The onslaught happened past week.

“All indispensable measures person been taken to guarantee the concern continuity,” tribunal spokesperson Fadi El Abdallah told The Associated Press.

The incident happened successful the aforesaid week that The Hague hosted a acme of 32 NATO leaders astatine a league halfway adjacent the tribunal amid choky information including measures to defender against cyberattacks.

The tribunal declined to accidental whether immoderate confidential accusation had been compromised.

The ICC has a fig of high-profile investigations and preliminary inquiries underway successful nations astir the satellite and has successful the past been the people of espionage.

In 2022, a Dutch quality bureau said it had foiled a crippled by a Russian spy utilizing a mendacious Brazilian individuality to enactment arsenic an intern astatine the court, which is investigating allegations of Russian warfare crimes successful Ukraine and has issued a warfare crimes arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of idiosyncratic work for the abductions of children from Ukraine.

Arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his erstwhile defence minister, Yoav Gallant, implicit Israel’s run against Hamas successful Gaza person besides drawn ire. U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions connected its main prosecutor, Karim Khan, successful February and earlier this period besides sanctioned 4 judges astatine the court.

The tribunal is inactive feeling the effects of the past cyberattack, with wifi inactive not wholly restored to its purpose-built headquarters.

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