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07 December 2023

Russian hackers attacked Bulgarian government websites

On 16 October 2022, the website of the Bulgarian presidency as well as the websites of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice and the Constitutional Court were hit by a DDoS attack originating from Russia and more specifically from the city of Magnitogorsk.  Bulgarian Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev called the attack a "serious problem" and an "attack on the Bulgarian state". 

Following this, in a statement from the Russian KillNet-affiliated hacktivist group "Anonymous russia", the Russian hacker KillMilk said that the attacks were carried out under his supervision against "the corrupt state of Bulgaria". 

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