The Directorate General of Health (DGS) reported on Saturday that Location It was the target of a cyberattack that blocked access to data and services, but by 23:00 it was “on” and the National Cyber Security Center (CNCS) had already been contacted.
The Directorate General of Health knows that its official page – www.dgs.pt – was the target of a cyberattack that prevented access to normally available data and services, ”reads a note from DGS. In the same note, sent at night, the General Directorate of Space indicated that Location It was already working.
The Directorate General of Health also stated that it had “contacted the National Center for Cyber Security, which is assessing and monitoring the situation, so that measures can be taken to mitigate the impact of this attack.” This information, the DGS adds, “will be updated as often as appropriate.”
Newspaper pass It reported yesterday that the internet addresses of the DGS and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon “have been down since, at least, the beginning of Saturday afternoon, following an attack by a group of Russian internet activists”.
“In the cyber counterintelligence circle, evidence has spread that the Killnet group, usually identified as the Russian government’s operational and propaganda arm in the digital underworld, launched a congestion-challenged cyberattack against medical institutions in several countries that aligned with the Ukrainian position — including Portugal pass.
