Digital backdoor to exams platform

The Education Ministry has announced that it has fallen victim to the largest cyberattack in the country's history, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks being aimed at its centralized high school examination platform.

Approximately 24 hours after the first wave of the cyber attack on the online system of the Institute of Educational Policy called the Subject Bank that aims to provide a common standard across the country, there was unusual activity on Tuesday morning in the Single Sign On identification and authentication service of the Panhellenic School Network.

Greek high school final exams are administered using the Subject Bank online system.

Both the the Digital Governance and Education ministries bemoaned what they described as large-scale and sustained-duration attacks on Monday and Tuesday, calling them the most significant ever carried out...