Cybersecurity incident — 2020-12-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: Lithuania
Affected country: Lithuania
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation,Internal Denial of Service
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

In a coordinated cyber-attack on Lithuania, hackers have breached multiple content management systems to gain access to 22 different websites operated by Lithuania's public sector. The attackers then published articles containing misinformation on the sites. Russia is identified as the likely culprit.