Alan Woodward - The scale of this attack is something we haven't seen before

12:43, 29.10.2019

“The scale of this attack is something we haven’t seen before,” said Prof Alan Woodward, cyber-security expert at Surrey University said in an interview with BBC.

“With the scale and the nature of the targets, it’s difficult not to conclude that this was a state-sponsored attack.”

Prof Woodward added that while the disruption caused had been “significant”, critical national infrastructure did not appear to have been affected.

A huge cyber-attack knocked out more than 2,000 websites in Georgia including the official website of Georgian Public Broadcaster on October 28. Court websites containing case materials and personal data were also attacked.

In many cases, website home pages were replaced with an image of former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, and the caption “I’ll be back”. The origin of the attack is not yet known.

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