Attack on Lithuanian army's website plotted for two weeks

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

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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