“Most of the aggressions had no major impact on the national security but some of the attacks aimed at compromising the IT systems of public institutions or private entities that manage strategic information,” the report reads.
According to SRI, the low cybernetic security level of Romania is due to managerial flaws, the low level of cybernetic security culture and the inexistence of minimum security policies for IT infrastructure.
In 2014, SRI identified cybernetic attacks targeting to jeopardize the IT systems of home affairs and foreign affairs institutions, defense and national security institutions, economic and energy resources institutions, research and media institutions, by exfiltrating confidential data and information”.
Moreover, the criminal cybernetic attacks are on “an upward trend “, the report reads.