For the past three years, hackers have been intercepting sensitive diplomatic cables sent between EU member states after stealing passwords for accessing the EU network via a phishing attack against diplomats in Cyprus, The New York Times reported late Tuesday.
The attack was discovered by Area 1, an anti-phishing firm based in Redwood City, California, that was founded in 2013 by three former National Security Agency officials. Area 1 researchers said that after hackers copied the cables off of a secure EU network, they had been posting them onto an open internet site, which was where the researchers found them.
