Interior Minister: Russia behind cyber-attack on Czech institutions

The IT systems of several Czech state and non-state institutions have been a target of DDoS cyber-attacks since Tuesday. According to Interior Minister Vít Rakušan, the attacks were led by Russian hackers. The minister said that they hadn’t managed to steal any information or private citizen data. On Wednesday evening, the National Cyber and Information Security Agency announced that it had itself been targeted. The attacks continued on Thursday morning, according to the agency, with targeted websites including the one belonging to the Office of Government.

According to the Czech News Agency, at least some of the attacks are being claimed by the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet. The Czech Police informed via twitter that the case is being investigated by the National Centre for Combating Organised Crime.