Greece

Suspected Turkish hackers attacked the website of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace on Tuesday, uploading a photo of the Turkish research vessel Oruç Reis which is currently sailing over the Greek continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean. The...

Several Greek government websites fell prey to cyber-attacks on Friday evening, forcing some of them to shut down entirely for security reasons, after access to them became problematic. Among those attacked by hackers were the websites of the Greek Parliament,...

Turkish hackers have launched a new cyber attack against Honda Greece. The automaker's website in Greece was infiltrated with a message condemning the country for "partnering" with terrorists. The website of Honda Greece was down on Monday. Instead, there was a...

The Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Monday night was hit by Turkish hackers who wrote threatening messages against Greece. At 11:00 on Monday night a message referring to the eight Turkish soldiers who were granted asylum in Greece appeared on the home...

A new NGO started by coders and software engineers quit their jobs, and a handful of volunteers are teaching refugees, migrants, and unemployed Greek people the secrets of coding in an interdependent digital world. Co-founded by three tech experts who...

Turkish hackers claim they took down the website of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras; this is the news making its rounds on Turkish media. Turkish hacker group Aslan NeferTim says that "it is our duty to respond to Greece's reaction to...

The second "ethical hackers contest," , EthiHak 2017, was completed with success in an Athens hotel with the three winners being Greunion, AnOncore and Aggressive Cake. About 60 contestants tried their skills in simulated hacker attacks, as part of the...

A group of hackers who had blackmailed the Greek banking system last week have given Greek banks three more days to meet their demands before they go through with their plan, according to Greek media reports. The team of hackers called Armanda Collective are asking...

A special unit of Greece's National Intelligence Service (EYP) is investigating a racket of hackers who blackmail Greek banks, including the country's central bank, asking for bitcoin as ransom. According to information released by Greek Police, a group of hackers...

The Greek Police Cyber Crime Unit has brought a case of intellectual property violation to light. Members of the unit conducted an online investigation and presented their data to Athens’ District Attorney, who requested a preliminary examination. The online investigation...

The Greek Cyber Crime Unit recently managed to capture two hackers messing with Facebook, receiving a thank you note from the social network’s representatives. It appears, however, that this unit has made several innovative decisions without holding back as other...

Two Greek students of informatics aged 31 and 27 years old had developed a malicious software called "Lecpetex" which was spreading through social networking sites stealing digital currencies, the so-called bitcoins, from more than 250,000 computers around the world. The Cyber...

Hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous posted a protest against Greece's EU and IMF-inspired austerity policies on the website of the country's justice ministry on Friday, a ministry spokeswoman said. The site was taken offline until it was secure,...

An innovative Greek documentary will present the Greek hackers that managed to get into the Institute for Nuclear Research CERN, and pause one of the biggest experiments in the world! The "white01black" documentary by Spyros Capsiles presents the access to...

Greek hackers apparently made the big scoop and earned twenty-eight million euros through emissions trading. According to Patras portal dete.gr, the unknown hackers broke the registration codes of Greece, Australia and the Czech Republic, stole their emissions rights and sold them in...