Interior Ministry investigates into recent e-mail threats
The e-mail threats have been sent from blackmirror@protonmail.com earlier today. Photo: Shot of e-mail threat
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The Georgian Interior Ministry announced today that it has started an investigation into the recent e-mail threats against the President of Georgia and several media outlets.
In particular, the Ministry referred to the text that has been sent to several e-mail addresses from one and the same account today.
TV Pirveli media company was among the targets. Its founder Vakhtang Tsereteli released the shot of the text on his Facebook page.
The e-mail sent from blackmirror@protonmail.com allegedly points at the recent cyber attacks on the websites of President of Georgia, courts, media and NGOs.
It reads:
We told you ahead about the huge attacks, you did not believe and ignored our warning. The answer to the question why we are doing that? You should be very well aware, show the public what we have obtained from your servers, what you did not wanted to reveal…
We will tell you directly [that] we are not [from] any party. We are not interested in either [Mikheil] Saakashvili or [Bidzina] Ivanishvili. It was just a sign of laughing at Saakashvili (I’LL BE BACK). If 500 bitcoins will not be transferred on the account that we sent in three days, we will start unveiling all the information that you had been protecting so much. This is just the beginning!”
Tsereteli said nothing has ever been kept at the TV Pirveli’s servers except from the media archive. Moreover, he noted that after the recent cyber attack, the Interior Ministry inspected their servers.
Following the cyber attacks against thousands of websites earlier this week, the Interior Ministry has launched the investigation into unauthorized access to the computer system and infringement of computer data and/or the computer system.
The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has questioned several people regarding a cyber-attack on thousands of websites including the President of Georgia, courts, media, local self-governments and NGOs.
Hacker attacks have been carried out against Georgian TV companies, Maestro and Imedi, the head of TV Imedi information service, Irakli Chikhladze reported.
Hacker attacks have been carried out against 2,000 websites including that of the President of Georgia, Courts of Georgia, NGOs, local self-governments and private organizations. Hacker attack victim sites are mainly hosted on the Proservice server. The company says that “this is a global flow and they are working to eliminate and fix the problem”.
The administration of the President of Georgia has announced that the manager of President Salome Zurabishvili’s Twitter account made a mistake in re-tweeting US President Donald Trump’s tweet calling democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden “sleepy Joe.”
Repeated hacker attacks have been carried out against Maestro and Imedi TV companies after the large cyber attack of October 28. Imedi TV reported that the company was also attacked late last night for about half an hour.