The Central European nation’s cybersecurity agency (NUKIB) acknowledged earlier in the day that several domestic banks had been targeted by distributed denial-of-service attacks that cut off access to online and mobile banking platforms.
A Czech news agency reported, citing NUKIB and the PwC consultancy, that the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 was behind the attack on Komercni Banka, CSOB, Air Bank, Fio Banka and Ceska sporitelna.
A cybersecurity expert told the agency that the attack was politically motivated and that clients’ money was safe at the banks. Fio Banka confirmed this in a statement saying that neither assets nor sensitive personal data were at risk.