From homegrown nationalists to the ‘Powerful Greek Army’, North Macedonia’s state institutions face a range of cyber threats from the extreme right. The first distributed denial of service, DDoS, attacks came on election night, targeting North Macedonia’s electoral commission and the news aggregator TIME.mk. The next came days later, hitting the health and education ministries as politicians mooted the idea of appointing an ethnic Albanian as prime minister for the first time ever. No one ever claimed responsibility for the electoral commission attack, and the name of the group that targeted TIME.mk – ‘Anonopsmkd’ – gave little away. But a subsequent message contained a good clue as to its ideological leanings.
via balkan insight: Far-Right Groups a Lingering Cyber Threat to North Macedonia