Belgium is the investigation of the alleged electronic attack on the intelligence agency by China’s infiltrators

Belgium has been investigating the alleged data breach of state security service (VSSE) by Chinese government infiltrators.

In a statement sent to Techcrunch on Friday, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said that the investigation into an electronic attack was opened in November 2023 after learning about the alleged breach.

This confirms a previous report issued by the Belgian newspaper in French EveningWhich stated that the Chinese piracy group had managed to reach the external mail server for intelligence service between 2021 and 2023.

According to what was reported, the Chinese Pi -Piracy Group, whose name was not revealed a security gap in the Barraracuda American company. The critical imbalance, which Baracoda first revealed in May 2023, affects the company’s ESG security gate device (ESG), a protection wall to filter incoming and exterior emails for potential malignant content.

“Questions related to any VSSE violations are more convenient to VSSE”. VSSE did not answer Techcrunch questions.

Security researchers at the Cyber ​​Security Company in the United States Mandyan Previously said The weakness, which can allow infiltrators to test the sensitive company data, has been exploited as a Zero day By the e -group supported by China to target organizations all over the world. Almost a third of the targeted organizations were government agencies, according to Mandinte.

Although the correction was released for weakness, Barracuda in June 2023 Urging all the affected customers to replace ESG devices affected by weakness. Customers also advised to rotate any accreditation data related to devices and verify the signs of settlement dating back to October 2022.

According to LE Soir, Barracuda’s backed infiltrators took advantage of the Barracuda defect to 10 % of incoming emails issued in the Belgian intelligence service. It is noted that although the classified information is not affected, the personal data has been accessed for about half of the VSSE employees, including identity documents, appeal, and internal communications.

According to what VSSE stopped, its use of BarraCuda products after the electronic attack, which was reported for the first time Local media In July 2023.

Zach Whitaker contributed to the reports.