Huge cyberattack in Georgia

The biggest cyberattack in Georgia ‘s history is a fact . Hackers have defaced 15,000 websites of the domestic Pro-Service provider, including that of the President of Georgia, municipal sites, courts and private companies such as newspapers. The attack left a picture of former President Mikheil Saakashvili with the statement ” I will return .”

The identity of the perpetrators is unknown. The attack also left state-run television channels unable to broadcast for hours.

The scale of this attack is something we have not seen before. Given the scale and nature of the targets, it is difficult not to conclude that this is a state-backed attack. – Alan Woodward, Cyber ​​Security Specialist at Surrey University

Mikheil Saakashvili was President of Georgia for two terms between 2004 and 2013. He resigned his Georgian citizenship in 2015 when he became governor of Odessa in Ukraine. He was deported from Ukraine in 2018 and his Ukrainian citizenship restored in May 2019. In Georgia, Saakashvili is wanted for abuse of public wealth, and has been classified as a political ally in the West.