- The ICC has confirmed the suffering of a cyber attack
- There are no threat actors attributed the responsibility of the incident
- However, the CPI recently accused Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has recently confirmed that it suffers a cyber attack, noting that a “new, sophisticated and directed” attack was detected through the alert and response mechanism of the Court.
Since it detected the attack, the organization claims to have contained it and is now working to mitigate any effect.
No other details were revealed, so we do not know who the actors of the threat are, what was the nature of the attack and if it left any consequence.
Links to Gaza
Established in 2002 and operating independently of the United Nations, the CPI is a court based in The Hague, Netherlands, which processes people for the most serious crimes with respect to the international community.
That includes war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and more, with some media that link this attack with the atrocities that occur in Gaza at this time.
In your report, Cybernews He states that the ICC has been under “greater scrutiny” for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
A similar feeling was reported by Israel timeswhich also emphasized that there is also an order for former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallat.
Israel rejects the jurisdiction of the Court and argues that the fight in Gaza meets international law. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, recently sanctioned the chief prosecutor Karim Khan and three other judges due to arrest orders, Political information.
This is also not the first cyber attack of the ICC, and Khan warned that the organization needs to adjust in security, since future attacks are also likely.
Through Cybernews
