Situation in Latvia's cyberspace has never before been so tense - Cert.lv

• Published date: 22 July 2022
• Publication title: LETA

RIGA, July 22 (LETA) - Never before the situation in Latvia's cyberspace has been so tense, Baiba Kaskina, head of Information Technology Security Incident Response Institution Cert.lv.

"The situation in Latvia's cyberspace has never before been so tense," Kaskina said, adding that the Latvian cyberspace is attacked practically on a daily basis, with around 1,000 targets being hit on some days. Most of these attacks, however, go unnoticed thanks to solid defense systems, she said.

In Kaskina's words, the most worrying are serious cyberattacks compromising the IT systems of companies providing services to state institutions and critical infrastructure. "We have uncovered several such attacks. We have been repelling them as far as we could, but there are no guarantees that there are no other attacks. This is a real danger which can strike us at any time," the Cert.lv chief said.

Kaskina also said that the hackers staging denial-of-service attacks and similar activities do not even attempt to hide, but that more serious incidents involving...