European gas pipeline under BlackCat ransomware attack

The ALPHV ransomware gang, aka BlackCat, reported a successful cyberattack against Creos Luxembourg S.A. last week, a natural gas pipeline and electricity network operator in the central European country.

The firm owner, Encevo, announced on July 25 that they had suffered a hacker attack between July 22 and 23.

While the hacker attack had resulted in the customer portals of Encevo and Creos becoming unavailable, there was no interruption in the provided services.

On July 28, Creos posted an update on the hacker attack, with the initial results of their investigation indicating that the system intruders had exfiltrated “a certain amount of data” from the accessed networks.

For now, all customers are recommended to reset their online account credentials, which they used for interacting with Encevo and Creos services. Furthermore, if those passwords are the same at other sites, customers should change their passwords on those sites as well.

At the same rime, week ago, the European Parliament unearthed attempts to plant high-end surveillance software on the phone of a Greek lawmaker.