A group of Russian hackers have started to target Lithuania as they aim to shut down government websites and cause chaos.
Lithuania’s tax authority said in a statement it had halted all activities due to an unusually large number of attempts to connect to its systems, although all data was safe.
The new front of the cyber war is another sign of deteriorating relations between Lithuania, a NATO country, and neighbouring Russia because of Moscow’s invasion ofRussian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for what is known as a distributed denial of service . Kaliningrad is sandwiched between EU and NATO members Poland and Lithuania and supplied by rail via Lithuanian territory.Demonstrators take part in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine at Independence Square in front of the Parliament Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania
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