Computer security

A national cybersecurity authority will be created with a bill to protect the public sector, as well as private companies in sectors such as the manufacturing and distribution of chemicals and food products.

Greece is among the top 10 countries in the world that are most exposed to cybercrime, according to Proxyrack's new report.

The results of the report confirmed the low level of internet security investment in Greece, which has the eighth highest cyber exposure index at 0.4.

The US government has warned US-flagged ships in the Eastern Mediterranean of an "increased risk to commercial vessels operating in the region" in light of "current tensions and hostilities."

Microsoft announced yesterday a 5 billion Australian dollar ($3.2 billion) investment in Australia focused on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, saying it would boost the country's economy and cyber defences.

An Istanbul court has arrested two out of four suspects over allegedly defrauding a large number of people by promising high profits in a short time through a fake investment company.

Istanbul Provincial Gendarmerie Cybercrime Units initiated an operation to apprehend the suspects who committed fraud under the guise of the investment company "İDOL FOREX" on social media platforms.

This spring, Clive Kabatznik, an investor in Florida, called his local Bank of America representative to discuss a big money transfer he was planning to make. Then he called again.

Except the second phone call wasn't from Kabatznik. Rather, a software program had artificially generated his voice and tried to trick the banker into moving the money elsewhere.

The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has caught an individual attempting to defraud businesspeople and high-level public officials by mimicking President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's voice using artificial intelligence.

This was announced today by the local authorities stating that the attack was "supported by a foreign government" and that it came from the USA.
Some network equipment at the Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Center was said to have been cyberattacked by an overseas organization, but the time of the attack was not specified, Reuters reports.

The US Commerce Department on Tuesday added two European-based surveillance firms to its economic trade blacklist as part of efforts by President Joe Biden's administration to counter the misuse of commercial spyware.

Greece's Cyber Security Authority has issued an advisory concerning a spike in phishing attacks - that is seemingly innocent SMS messages and emails purporting to be from official agencies asking for sensitive private information.