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Swiss Air Force data exposed in hacker attack on US firm

Documents from the Swiss Air Force, among others, have been exposed in a hacker attack on US security company Ultra Intelligence & Communications.

Published: 6 January 2024 18:55 CET
Code on a computer.
Code on a computer. Swiss Air Force documents been subject to a data breach on a US security firm. Photo by Jake Walker on Unsplash

In total, around 30 gigabytes of data, including classified documents, were stolen and have now appeared on the dark web, where anyone can access them. 

The hacked US company also supplies the Swiss Department of Defence (DDPS) and Swiss aerospace engineering and defence industry business Ruag with encryption and communication technology.

The documents that have surfaced on the dark web include a contract between the DDPS and the US company for almost five million dollars.

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The contract is said to relate to the purchase of encrypted communications technology for the Swiss Air Force. 

The name ‘Ruag’ also appeared in the leaked documents, which seem to relate to technologies it has been acquiring from the US company since 2017.

The VBS confirmed the hacker attack to Swiss public TV SRF Investigativ.

“Ultra Intelligence & Communications informed Armasuisse and the Defence Group of the ransomware attack,” they said, adding that further investigations were underway.

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Swiss probing 11-year-old over Islamist posts: media

Swiss police are investigating an 11-year-old boy believed to have been radicalised by Islamic extremists -- the youngest person ever to be involved in such a case in Switzerland, media reported Friday.

Published: 7 September 2024 08:35 CEST
Swiss probing 11-year-old over Islamist posts: media

Swiss broadcasters RTS and SRF reported that police in the southern Swiss canton of Wallis had questioned the boy in June.

He was questioned in connection with “racist and discriminatory content” posted on social media, they said, citing the cantonal juvenile court.

The child reportedly admitted to having had contact with people involved in extremist movements abroad.

The court had not identified the extremist movements in question, but RTS and SRF said they had obtained information indicating they were Islamist and Jihadist groups.

Prior to this case, Islamist extremist cases on record in Switzerland have never involved anyone younger than 14, the broadcasters reported.

Wallis authorities have reportedly opened a juvenile case against the child, whose nationality was not divulged.

The juvenile court had stressed that the level of radicalisation had yet to be established and that the boy enjoyed the presumption of innocence.

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