TIRANA, Nov 11 /ATA/ Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha said today that “Albania expresses its full solidarity with France following the devastating cyberattacks, unprecedented in scale, carried out by an offensive cyber unit linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps”.
‘Albania stands in full solidarity with France following the attribution of the recent unprecedented and highly destructive cyberattacks to an offensive cyber unit linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.’
Hoxha went on saying that Albania is all too familiar with the challenges France is facing today. In 2022, our country was itself subjected to severe and destructive cyber operations, which were unequivocally attributed to Iranian state actors.
State-sponsored cyberattacks must never be normalised or tolerated, nor must they be allowed to serve as instruments of coercion without consequences for those behind them.
An attack on critical infrastructure strikes at the very heart of a society’s functioning and security, whether it is carried out with explosives or malicious code.
Europe must stand united, strengthen its collective resilience and ensure that those responsible for such acts are held to account.
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