PRAGUE: Two hospitals in the Czech Republic reported attempted attacks on their computer systems on Friday, a day after the national cybersecurity watchdog said it expected a wave of cyberattacks on the country's critical infrastructure.
A spokesman at the country's NUKIB cybersecurity watchdog said he could not immediately confirm the Ostrava incident. "We withstood the flagged hacking attacks. We noticed heightened activity of scanning of our network from the flagged IP addresses, and we made an extra back-up of all our systems as recommended," Adam Fritscher said.NUKIB had said on Thursday that it expected similar attacks aimed at damaging or completely disabling computers and computer systems in the coming days.
Hackers ranging from cyber criminals to government-backed spies are thought to have been targeting businesses, governments and healthcare organisations with attempts to steal sensitive information related to the new coronavirus outbreak.