http://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/defence/attack-on-lithuanian-armys-website-plotted-for-two-weeks.d?id=68228302
BNS
June 12, 2015
The Wednesday's cyber attack on the website of the Lithuanian Armed Forces
Joint Staff was plotted for at least two weeks, with requests sent from
Iran, among other countries, says Rimantas Černiauskas, director of the
National Cyber Security Centre.
"We see large amounts of interesting information. We see that there were
continued various pings, for instance, there was an attempt from Iran to
guess the password. We see that the server hosting the website was
constantly checked by hackers, with attempts to enter it, most of the
attempts were not successful," said the expert.
In his words, the final conclusions on the hacking should be submitted to
the Armed Forces by the end of office hours on Friday – additional
information has now been requested from the company managing the website
content.
Černiauskas confirmed that special robots had been checking the weak spots
of the system on a daily basis, i.e., at least two or three times a day,
attempting to guess the passwords and find system gaps, the attack was
conducted by specific individuals.
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