The U.S. Federal Bureau for Investigation (FBI) will deploy a team of cyber experts to Montenegro to examine a massive, coordinated attack on the Balkan nation’s digital infrastructure, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday.
The rapid deployment of the FBI cyber team suggests “the excellent cooperation between the United States of America and Montenegro and proof that we can count on their support in any situation,” said Montenegro’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Last week, a combination of ransomware and DDoS attacks disrupted government services and prompted the nation’s electrical utility to switch to manual control. Montenegro’s Agency for National Security accused Russia of being responsible for them and has said that up to €2.5mn were invested to launch cyber-attacks.
“Coordinated Russian services are behind the cyber attack,” the ANB stated. “This kind of attack was carried out for the first time in Montenegro and it has been prepared for a long period of time.”
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