Cyber attacks

CERT: Latvia has dodged hundreds of hacker attacks recently

LSM English26 October 2026, 11:13 UTCLatvia

Over the last few days, there have been hundreds of attempts to hack Latvian websites, but none of these cyber-attack attempts have been successful. Latvian Radio obtained this information from CERT.lv, the cyber incident response centre.

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