Georgian Foreign Ministry says Russia carried out large-scale cyberattack on government websites in October 2019

Georgian Foreign Ministry says Russia carried out large-scale cyberattack on government websites in October 2019

Georgian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Konstantinidi said the GRU, or Russian military intelligence, carried out the large-scale cyberattack on government websites in October 2019.

Speaking at a news conference in Tbilisi, Konstantinidi said: "The investigation conducted by the Georgian authorities, together with the information gathered through cooperation with our partners concluded that this cyber attack was planned and carried out by the main division of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation."