The National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) has reacted after today's attack on the servers of the Institute of Statistics, an attack carried out by the notorious "Homeland Justice" hackers.
AKCESK says that after receiving the notification of the attack, it has set up a group of experts in cooperation with the State Police for the management of the cyber attack.
Currently, Instat's "online" page is out of service, but it remains unclear how much damage the hackers may have caused.
Instat is not classified as a carrier of important information or critical infrastructure, so it is not under the monitoring and control of AKCESK.
Full statement:
Today, February 1, 2024, AKCESK has been notified of a cyber attack on INSTAT. Immediately after the notification received, AKCESK set up a group of experts and coordinated the work with the State Police to closely assist the institution in managing the cyber attack.
According to the legislation in force, the information infrastructures owned by INSTAT are not currently classified as critical or important information infrastructure and are not under the monitoring and control of AKCESK. These infrastructures are hosted and managed in the premises of this institution.
Currently AKCESK in coordination with the responsible team of the institution are working on the recovery of the affected systems, as well as analyzing the tactics, techniques and procedures used by the actors of the attack.
From the first moments of this event, in addition to the work at INSTAT, AKCESK brought to the attention of all critical and important information infrastructures, taking measures, sharing the findings so far evidenced by the traces of today's attack, in order to prevent of similar attacks on other infrastructures.