The Interior Ministry will issue instructions to the public administration and the heads of administrations on how to protect their systems against hacker attacks. The aim is to prevent breaches in the Parliament's snap election on 2 October. This was announced at a briefing by the caretaker minister of interior Ivan Demerdzhiev.
He said no lessons had been learned from the massive cyberattack against Bulgarian Posts in April this year and that the necessary action had not been taken in this respect. Minister Demerdzhiev said that the Interior Ministry has a lot of responsibilities with regard to the migrant pressure, which has been increasing with every passing day. During the election period, Interior Ministry officers will be recalled from the border and replaced by people from the Ministry of Defence.