Lithuania denounced this Monday a series of computer attacks “intensive” against national network and private companies. According to him Ministry of Defence, “The most important DDoS attacks have been contents and all the services of safety net are still available,” she reported. The prime minister, Ingrida Simonytehas recognized an increase in computer attacks in the country since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. “We are suffering from it from the very beginning of the invasion. There have been attacks on these four months and before“, he pointed out.
The Russian hacker group Killnet has claimed responsibility and has ensured that the cyber attacks a Lithuania will continue this Tuesday accordingly to the decision to close the transit of some goods under sanctions of the European Union to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
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In the face of this offensive, the Lithuanian Tax Agency (VMI) has put in quarantine their systems as a security measure after detecting “an unusually high number of records“. “The data of VMI users are insurance“, he indicated, although he acknowledges that “the VMI portal, the My VMI application and telephone services are fallen”. The Director of the Immigration Department, Evelina Gudzinskaite, has reported interruptions in the service through Internet which have caused delays in the issuance of passports and residence permits.Lithuania airports has confirmed incidents on the company website. “We’ve had some interruptions, but everything is working. Our systems work”, he assured. Others official organizations They have also announced incidents in their services. In the past week Lithuanian Railways also reported a computer attack.
The EU has agreed sanctions against him steel and others ferrous metals Russians, so not allowed their transit through community territory, including between the enclave of Kaliningrad and the rest of the russian territory. Moscow accuses Lithuania and the EU of breaching theinternational sane and has even threatened a response “not diplomatic”.