The Albanian government announced today, Saturday, September 10 (September 10), that one of its border systems was subjected to a cyber attack, on Friday, from the same Iranian source, which had launched a previous attack, and prompted the country to sever diplomatic relations with Iran.
And the news agency “Associated Press” reported that the Albanian Ministry of Interior issued a statement saying that the information systems of the police in Albania were subjected to a cyber attack, carried out – according to preliminary information – by the same parties that attacked last July the public and government services systems in the country.
The statement said that the latest attack has rendered the information systems for monitoring sea and air ports and border crossings out of service.
According to local media, the suspension of the aforementioned systems has caused the formation of long queues at least at two border crossings in southern Albania.
The recent attack on Albania came days after the latter cut diplomatic ties with Tehran.
On Wednesday, September 7, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced that Albania would end its diplomatic relations with Iran, and ordered Iranian diplomats and embassy staff to leave Albania within the next 24 hours.
The Albanian prime minister added that this “severe response” is fully proportional to the seriousness of the cyber attack [الإيراني]which threatens to paralyze public services, wipe out digital systems, hack government records, steal internal government communications, and create chaos and insecurity.