Cyber security professor for stealing 2 million: It's a cyberattack

Bleton Abazaj, professor of cyber security, has said the theft that occurred in the Kosovo Treasury days ago is not a cyber attack that has been undertaken abroad.

We can't call this cyberattack, it's structured attack, prepared earlier. Noteing that this has happened from the inside, these are internal attacks where the attacker recognizes the internal computer system and manages to access the specified” accounts, Abazaj has indicated.

“The eight-minute period that has occurred, where other accounts are said to indicate organization for this attack. A single person must either have taken very big access or received authorization from the specified” systems.

Abazaj, in a televised debate, has said that state institutions lack strategies that identify mistakes/mistakes similar to this of stealing two million euros.

Everything is stored in the database. The IT department has failed to identify this problem. Were the vehicles spent and found to be short of two million? What has been the approach they used to identify this problem. Computer systems are linked to a particular edomein that has a level of security from outside attacks. The finance ministry lacks an IT strategy”.

There is a lack of strategy that guides us to part of making such mistakes and abuses. It was a structured attack inside the Treasury. The person has known the weaknesses of the system. He was an IT expert we don't know, but it's been impossible as an individual solo to create this structure. It's intranets where each person has tea based on the authorizations he receives. If he was a Treasury official, he had authorization to conduct transactions. If the administrator has given him access, it's a flagrant violation”.