
CERT-EU blames Trivy supply chain attack for Europa.eu data breach
The European Union’s Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-EU, has traced last week’s theft of data from the Europa.eu platform to the recent supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner. The attack on the AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu web hub on March 24 resulted in the theft of 350 GB of data (91.7 GB compressed), including personal names, email addresses, and messages, according to CERT-EU’s analysis. The compromise of Trivy allowed attackers to access an AWS API key, gaining access to a range of European Commission web data, including data related to “42 internal clients of the European Commission, and at least 29 other Union entities u...