These rumors are currently making waves online because over the past month, a ransomware gang had extorted Impresa and Cofina, two of Portugal’s largest news media outlets. The Lapsus$ ransomware gang, which was behind the two attacks, has not taken credit for the Vodafone Portugal outage on any of its online accounts.
An ATM network operated by the country's biggest banks reported issues due to the cyberattack on Vodafone Portugal, according to the Publico newspaper. A Vodafone spokesperson confirmed that the ATMs were down because of the outage, noting that the ATMs were connected to their 4G service.
Regarding essential services in Portugal that depend on the Vodafone network, such as the ambulance service INEM and some fire brigades,
In January 2022, the hacking group named Lapsu$ Group hackers digitally stormed into the TV network of Impresa. And was found to have infiltrated into the network of Portugal Parliament stealing personal information related to MPs and some party documents.
Vodafone Portugal is the world’s first Telecom operator to offer VOLTE based television subscription on smart watches in 2015
