Over 800 Greece Government Services Targeted in Unprecedented Cyberattack
INCIDENT
More than 800 services of Greece’s Gov.gr and TAXISnet, as well as medical prescriptions, were frozen by an unprecedented DDoS attack. The cyberattack reportedly came from the Netherlands and attempted to temporarily take down or even completely stop the operation of approximately 800 Government websites. Among the problems caused, was to disabling electronic prescriptions. Doctors on call could only issue handwritten prescriptions on the weekend, on-call pharmacies could not fill emergency prescriptions, nor could hospital doctors prescribe to patients in emergency rooms.
As of Sunday afternoon (2 days later) about 600 websites had been “cleaned up” and were allowed access again after initializing settings.
Type of Malware
No Malware identified
Threat Source
No threat source identified