Serbia’s justice ministry said Monday that it suspected a “hybrid war” was behind cyberattacks on institutions, including the country’s judiciary, which crippled parts of its court computer system.
Serbia’s judicial information system was hit by a “serious and complex malicious cyberattack” on July 4, the ministry said.
“There is an open suspicion that this is part of a hybrid war waged against the Republic of Serbia,” the ministry said in a statement, citing several other attacks this year.
The government cut network connections to and between the judicial authorities to prevent the spread of the hack, which could threaten the functioning of judiciary for an extended period, it said in a statement.
The ministry said that a previous attack on its website “came from Hungary and Ukraine” but did not link either country to the current hack.
The outage comes after months of mass anti-government demonstrations around the country, as protesters call for snap elections.
Following the fatal collapse of a train station roof late last year, protesters have turned out in their hundreds of thousands over allegations of deep-rooted corruption in the Balkan nation.
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