Strumica

A well known group of supposedly Greek-based hackers, calling themselves "Powerful Greek Army", has claimed it took down the pages of several banks in North Macedonia on Tuesday evening for a couple of hours.

North Macedonia's Education Ministry on Sunday said it had been a target of a hacking attack over the past few days, but said video footage published on the Twitter account of a hacker group called "Powerful Greek Army", as proof of the hacking, was fake.

This is when attackers secretly alter communications between two sides and steal key information, such as passwords, messages or credit card numbers.

Lawyers for Zaev and the other defendants in the case want the Skopje Criminal Court to dismiss the charges against them and confirm that grounds for criminal prosecution and a trial do not exist.