Iranian cybercriminals published on Monday sensitive information from the authorities, including documents on alleged plots to kill Albanian and Kosovo politicians, while the prosecutor in Tirana has banned media from publishing any of the data.
Albania has been subject to a string of cyberattacks since 15 July that brought digital government systems to a standstill and saw a site called ‘Homeland Security’ offer to sell reams of sensitive citizen and government data while threatening to publish more.
Another followed this attack in September that brought all border computer systems offline, causing chaos at border crossings and airports.
Since Monday, a number of documents, emails, and memos between politicians, authorities and institutions and ambassadors have been published via the Homeland Security Telegram channel. On Monday evening, the prosecutor announced that publishing such data would be pursued as a criminal act.
“The prosecutor’s office has decided that no data published by the authors of the cyber attack shall be published by audiovisual media, print, online, in social networks or in any form of publication or transfer of data,” it reads.
One document published just over a week from the last attack reveals that the Counter-Terrorism Unit in Kosovo was made aware of a plan to kill Prime Minister Albin Kurti.
According to data in the report, the person suspected of planning to carry out the attack was Prek Kodra, someone reportedly skilled as a sniper and suspected of murders in Kosovo and Montenegro. Kurti was to be targeted along with two others to destabilise the country.
Another document relates to an alleged plot to kill the then-leader of the Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, in 2017. It details that the assassination would be carried out by three people, each with a his ..
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