Due to a recent cyber attack the databases managed by Latvia’s Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB), including Electronic Data Entry Systems, and the institution’s official mobile app Ziņo KNAB have been disrupted, as confirmed by KNAB.
KNAB reports that in the evening on 25 July multiple of the institution’s resources suffered a cyber attack. Public accessibility to those resources was disrupted by those cyber attacks.
KNAB reports all data stored in the affected databases is secure.
KNAB together with Information Technology Security Incident Response Institution of Latvia Cert.lv have commenced the necessary measures to restore accessibility to the aforementioned resources.
Cert.lv representative Līga Besere said attacks on KNAB are related to groups that support Russia’s aggressive policies.
The objective of DDoS or distributed denial-of-service is making resources under attack inaccessible. Attackers do this by remotely sending a large number of fake access requests. Attacks like that require a large volume of resources. This is why attackers do not act against several targets simultaneously, said Besere.
She also mentioned that Cert.lv provided recommendations to KNAB on improving protection of their databases.