Computer security

The Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country's history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform.

Greece's top prosecutor ordered an investigation into two cyber attacks targeting a state-run exam platform on Tuesday morning, which has disrupted the end-of-year exams taking place in high schools around the country. 

A new cyberattack targeted a state-run exam platform on Tuesday morning, causing severe delays in the ongoing high school exams taking place around Greece. 

The Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) is strengthening its systems to prevent new cyber attacks like the one that caused chaos during Monday's school exams, a spokesperson announced.

The massive influx of up to 280,000 connections per second from unrelated sources blocked access to the exam platform.

The Interior Ministry has implemented extensive security measures across Türkiye to ensure the smooth conduct of the presidential runoff election.

In the warning issued on Wednesday, which came from several countries, it was revealed that Chinese cyber espionage was aimed at military and government organizations in the US, Reuters reported.
The Chinese government has rejected claims it is spying on Western targets, calling the warning from the US and its allies a "collective disinformation campaign".

U.S. semiconductor giant Micron has failed a national security review, China's cybersecurity watchdog has said, telling operators of "critical information infrastructure" to stop buying its products.    

It marked the latest escalation in the bitter chip war between the United States and China, with Washington looking to cut off Beijing's access to cutting-edge semiconductors.    

At the session of the National Assembly, MPs considered the Report on the security situation that arose after the mass murders in the Elementary School "Vladislav Ribnikar" and in the area of Smederevo and Mladenovac, which was submitted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

Perpetrator still unknown

The attacks of August 22 last year compromised a string of public services, including the websites of the government and the Revenue and Customs Administration.

According to the Ministry of Public Administration, 17 "information systems" in 10 institutions were infected, with 150 computer directly affected.

"There are suspects in the attempted assassination of the Prosecutor General". This was announced by acting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Demerdzhiev at a briefing in the Council of Ministers, where a meeting of Prime Minister Galab Donev with representatives of the security services was held. However, he refused to give details.