The recent cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which compromised the data of more than 515,000 “highly vulnerable” people, was likely the work of state-sponsored hackers.
In an update published on Wednesday, the ICRC confirmed that the initial intrusion dates back to November 9, 2021, two months before the attack was disclosed on January 18, adding that its analysis shows that the intrusion was a “highly-sophisticated” targeted attack on its systems — and not an attack on third-party contractor systems as the ICRC first said.
The ICRC said it knows that the attack was targeted “because the attackers created code designed solely for execution on the concerned ICRC servers.” According t …
