Montenegro "Especially Vulnerable to Russian Cyber Attacks"

Montenegro and some other Balkan countries fear meddling from Moscow in what they believe is an expansion of Russian foreign policy, according to the report by RFE/RL.

Officials in Podgorica feel their country is especially vulnerable. Over the last two years, authorities in Montenegro have recorded a sharp rise in cyberattacks, mostly targeting state institutions and media outlets in that aspiring EU state on the Adriatic, RFE/RL reports.

"We are doing everything to be prepared the best we can," Milica Jankovic, the head of the Directorate for Electronic Administration and Information Security at the Public Administration Ministry, told RFE/RL.

"We are organizing prevention and monitoring systematically, and we will try to recognize the attacks and predict them before they arise."

Jankovic said cyberattacks in 2017 totaled around 700, a 20-fold increase...