{"id":36861,"date":"2019-03-23T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36861"},"modified":"2019-03-23T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:22:24","slug":"cybersecurity-firm-russian-hackers-targeting-european-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36861","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity firm: Russian hackers targeting European governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Russian state-linked hackers are increasing their efforts targeting governments in Europe, a top cybersecurity firm has warned ahead of the European Parliament elections in May. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Among the two groups involved is Fancy Bear, otherwise known as APT28, which played a role in the hacking of the US Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 presidential election, the firm FireEye said. The other group is known as Sandworm Team. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">FireEye said it had observed an uptick in the targeting of European government departments and agencies since mid-2018. The hackers have also targeted media outlets in France and Germany, FireEye added. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Russian state-linked hackers are increasing their efforts targeting governments in Europe, a top cybersecurity firm has warned ahead of the European Parliament elections in May. Among the two groups involved is Fancy Bear, otherwise known as APT28, which played a role in the hacking of the US Democratic Party ahead of the 2016 presidential election,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}