Slovenia suffers significant cyberattack – Barrier Networks responds

According to the report, the attack is considered one of the biggest such incidents in Slovenia’s history. Apart from IT and cyber security experts, the national intelligence agency SOVA and the Defence Ministry’s security and intelligence service are looking into the background of the incident.

“When critical national infrastructure organisations suffer a cyberattack, there is a strong possibility they will disconnect the services they provide into society, which can have devastating effects on citizens.”

Slovenia has seen quite a few cyber attacks in recent years, most recently the Foreign Ministry earlier this year in an attack that media reported had been executed by Chinese hackers who were only interested in documents related to China and Slovenia’s policies on China.

In response to reports that Slovenia’s biggest power provider has suffered a cyberattack, Barrier Networks’ CTO, Ryan McConechy, gives his response to Security On Screen.