The Austrian ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday night, was hit by a serious cyber attack”, says a spokesperson for the ministry to the Austrian news agency APA as well as to know. The map is currently still in progress, and the department has let us know of technical counter-measures to be taken.
due to the severity of the attack, it is stated to the department that the land in front of it. “In the past, other European countries have fallen victim to similar attacks.” What country is behind the attack, it would be able to sit down, the ministry is not aware of this.
On the day of the attack, was the conference place of the Austrian Greens, which is 93% of the members have agreed to a coalition between the Greens and the conservative ÖVP on federal, Sebastian Kurz. For the first time for the Greens to take part in government. During the elections, would be for the ÖVP, to his own words, ” you hacked, allowing hackers during weeks to have access to the servers, and, according to Kurz, the elections, and wanted to influence it.
To make this sort of major cyber-attacks harder to deal with it, Brussels has recently been adopted in the cases in which sanctions are imposed should be made. It will be great to attack with a “significant impact”, that is, from outside of the European Union. Under these sanctions includes, inter alia, for a re-entry ban and freezing of bank accounts.
