Comes less than two years after the ICC revealed a major breach in September 2023, later attributed to a cyber-espionage operation
Computing reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has confirmed it is investigating a fresh and “sophisticated” cyberattack that targeted its systems last week, marking the second such incident in recent years.
In March 2023, the Court issued a warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
That was followed by another high-profile warrant in November 2023 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, tied to the ongoing conflict in Palestine.
The US government, particularly under the Trump administration, responded to these moves by slapping sanctions on ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan.
Earlier this year, Khan lost access to his official Microsoft-hosted email, an incident that sparked a wave of political concern across Europe and intensified calls to decouple sensitive institutional communications from US-controlled tech providers.
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