Trinidad and Tobago suffers outages caused by cyberattack
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Trinidad and Tobago’s justice department is dealing with a cyberattack that has impacted the ministry’s operations. The island nation of more than 1.4 million people announced on Friday that its Ministry of Digital Transformation discovered a cyberattack targeting the country’s Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs (AGLA) in recent days.
No specific date was given for when the attack started but AGLA published a message saying it has been dealing with outages since June 30 and internal services were disrupted. Any court documents served electronically after that date were not received.
“This unauthorized and illegal access has negatively impacted operations at the AGLA and certain associated Divisions,” the Ministry of Digital Transformation said in a statement on Friday. “Having taken actions to minimize the threat, an investigation, in partnership with leading industry cybersecurity experts, is ongoing. In the meantime, some services that are usually provided are temporarily unavailable.”
The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) published an advisory on Friday urging all organizations to “take the necessary precautions to mitigate against rising ransomware attacks”.
