Information security in Lithuania

2022: Cyberattacks hit Lithuania's e-government. Many sites are down

At the end of June 2022, the e-government Lithuania collapsed. cyber attacks Many government sites are down.

According to the Telegram channel Mash, a massive cyber attack on various resources of Lithuanian government agencies was organized by hackers from the pro-Russian group Killnet, who explained their actions by responding to the decision of the country's authorities to continue the transport blockade of the Kaliningrad region.

Cyber ​ ​ attacks hit the Lithuanian e-government

It is noted that among the affected departments of Lithuania - including the state tax inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania, sites of oil and gas ports and street cameras. At the same time, some sites may open, but their services cannot be used. The Lithuanian online accounting system, used by most enterprises, also came under attack. An attack on the b1.lt system leads the entire cloud of storage of millions of documents to a user authorization error, KillNet claims.

On June 25, 2022, the Killnet group published a video message in which it warned that if the Lithuanian authorities did not lift the transport blockade of the Kaliningrad region within 48 hours, more 500 the country's companies would be "in monstrous conditions."

Earlier, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, said that the Lithuanian railway operator notified the authorities of the Russian region that from June 18, 2022 they would restrict the transit of some goods from the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to the region due to European anti-Russian sanctions. According to him, according to preliminary estimates, this applies from 40% to 50% of the entire range of transit goods. These are construction cargoes, cement, metals and other important goods. The head of the region called these actions illegal. Alikhanov noted that they could have "far-reaching consequences" for Lithuania and the European Union^[1]

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