{"id":87258,"date":"2026-02-13T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/892050179"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:28:00","slug":"europe-needs-cyber-weapons-says-eu-tech-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/europe-needs-cyber-weapons-says-eu-tech-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe needs cyber weapons, says EU tech chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img data-opt-id=758893364  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.politico.eu\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13\/GettyImages-2249454003-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>MUNICH \u2014 Europe must be able to strike back in cyberspace, as the strategy to deter adversaries is no longer enough, the EU executive&#8217;s tech and security chief told POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not enough that we are just defending &#8230; We also have to have offensive capacity,\u201d the European Commission&#8217;s Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen said in an interview on the sidelines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/munich-security-conference-2026\/\">Munich Security Conference<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For years, European capitals have held back from stating publicly that they support offensive cyber operations \u2014&nbsp;known as &#8220;hacking back&#8221; \u2014&nbsp;because of fears that such operations could trigger retaliation and escalation from countries like Russia, China and others. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\"> <\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; , the EU executive&#039;s <span class=\"match\">tech<\/span> and security chief told POLITICO &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}