Cybersecurity

Bulgaria May Build Cyber Security Center After Website Attacks

  • Attacks targeted Bulgarian infrastructure, banks, airports
  • New center will monitor threats, coordinate cyber defense
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Bulgaria plans to set up a cyber security center to strengthen its defense capability after state institutions’ websites were hacked, blocking digital services and causing data leaks.

The communication systems of several Bulgarian state institutions were targeted in 2015, President Rosen Plevneliev told reporters in the capital Sofia after meeting Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, ministers and security experts to discuss counteraction to cyber crime.