In June of this year, the Czech Foreign Ministry suffered a cyberattack that originated in Russia, a Czech newspaper reported earlier this week. On Tuesday, the Czech Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security acknowledged that a recent cyberattack on the Foreign Ministry was the work of a foreign state, but it did not identify the country nor provide further information about the attack.
Last year, a report by BIS, the Czech counter-intelligence service, attributed various cyberattacks that targeted the country’s Foreign Ministry in 2017 to Russia.
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