Estonia ranks third on Estonian non-profit organisation e-Governance Academy’s updated National Cyber Security Index (NCSI), LSM reports. Estonia ranks third out of 31 countries on the index, with 85.83 points. Latvia is fifth with 79.17 points. Lithuania’s data is not included in the updated index. Estonia scored 80.02 points and Latvia 71.88 points in terms…
Lithuanian cyber security company Nord Security has attracted a new USD 100mn (EUR 95mn) investment from US private equity firm Warburg Pincus, LRT reports. Existing investors, Novator Partners and Burda Principal Investments, also contributed in the latest round. Nord Security will expand its NordVPN and Surfshark cyber security products in various markets. Also, the company…
The Baltic Assembly and the Nordic Council have agreed on new priorities of cooperation at their annual summit in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, BNS reports. In the 2024-2026 period, the two parliamentary cooperation organisations will focus on supporting Ukraine’s reconstruction and on defence against cyber threats and disinformation. Also, the eight parliaments will promote democracy…
A cyber attack disrupted ticket sales for Estonia’s passenger train operator, Elron, on 20 September 2023, ERR reports. Ticket sales were disrupted at POS terminals, on trains, and online. Passengers could pay for tickets by cash on the train, however. The disruption was due to repeated DDoS attacks by supporters of Russia against the provider…
Russia-backed hackers carried out large-scale cyber attacks against several state, financial, and health care institutions in Latvia on 4 September 2023, according to Latvia’s Information Technology Security Incident Prevention Agency, CERT.LV, Baltic News Network reports. The organised attacks involved phishing campaigns, defacing websites, and possible ransomware attacks. CERT.LV called on residents to report incidents and…
A leak of alleged security details of NATO’s summit in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, was linked to a breach of Lithuanian government IT systems, the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) announced, BNS reports. NKVC director Vilmantas Vitkauskas said that the seriousness of the incident was “likely to be greater than initially thought.” The government chancellery has…
The number of serious cyber incidents recorded in Estonia stood at almost 75 per week in the beginning of June 2023, which was up from around 40 incidents in the beginning of 2023, Tõnu Tammer, cyber incident manager at the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA), said, ERR reports. RIA’s experts have identified around a dozen…
Lithuania recorded dozens, if not hundreds, of information and cyber attacks just before and during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Kestutis Budrys, chief national security adviser to President Gitanas Nauseda, announced, LRT reports. He said that the authorities managed to repel almost all of the attacks, however. “Everything was red when the summit was taking…
One of Lithuania’s most popular news websites, 15min, was subjected to a targeted DDoS attack on 12 July 2023, BNS reports. Several other companies and municipal organisations in Lithuania were subjected to similar cyber attacks. The attacks coincided with a summit of NATO leaders in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
