Slovenian authorities intensifying monitoring situation after cyberattack

Slovenian authorities have intensified monitoring the situation in the wake of an unprecedented global cyberattack, although the country did not suffer much consequences.

According to the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), latest Europol data shows that the cyberattack has hit more than 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries on Friday, and merely eight victims in Slovenia were hit by the cyberattack.

The most serious case in Slovenia, car assembly factory Revoz, the subsidiary of France's Renault, was the only company to have been attacked.

The attack resulted in the cancellation of the Friday-to-Saturday night shift and the Saturday shift on the company's production schedule.

According to Revoz spokesperson Nevenka Basek Zildzovic, it is too early to say when production would be relaunched and it is hard to assess the damage from it, the STA report said on Sunday,

Quoting an unofficial information, the STA report said that Revoz would have made more than 400 cars during the cancelled shifts.

While only eight victims reported to have been victims of the cyberattack in Slovenia, the acting boss of the Government Office for the Protection of Classified Information Dobran Bozic believes that given the nature of the attack, the number is much higher.

Bozic also believes that victims were targetted randomly rather than carefully selected in advance. Endit