The United States assists Bulgaria with a cyber defense center in a bid to combat upcoming DDOS attacks by Russian threat actors.
Latest Aid Boost Bulgaria’s Cyber Preparedness
The opening of the Cyber Defense Center today marks a critical turning point in American relations with Bulgaria. Chargé d’Affaires Andrea Brouillette-Rodriguez participates with Defense Minister Todor Tagarev and Andrea Brouillette-Rodriguez in the official inauguration of Bulgaria’s Cyber Defense Center in Sofia, which is the first of its type.
The Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program of the U.S. Department of State provides funds for the $12 million project, which is for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program of the U.S. Department of Defense. This cutting-edge center will act as a focal point for cyber-defense activities and training, therefore enabling Bulgarian military personnel access to top-notch education and training they need to prevent, recognize, and fight cyberattacks.
Additionally, over the past five years, the United States has donated more than $238 million in security assistance to Bulgaria. This support was to improve military professionalism, interpersonal skills, cyber security, tool advancement, domain awareness, and NATO collaboration.
Furthermore, the Division invested over $58 million in FMF between 2017 and 2022 to strengthen Bulgaria’s capabilities in intelligence gathering, safe communications, and defensive digital safety. These initiatives harmonize with cybersecurity experts for the Ministry of Defense who is part of the State Department create cyber strategy, regulations, and practices.
The U.S. is keen to assist Bulgaria in building up its cyber defense capabilities and looks forward to further collaboration in this vital field.
Bulgaria Recent DDoS Incident
Recently, Bulgaria experienced some DDoS as a result of losing the Port of Varna to Noname. The assaults on North Sea Port and Europort in the Netherlands is an attribute of Dark Storm. Nonetheless, the assault is a component of a bigger effort to strike vital infrastructure and compromise NATO port defenses. NoName has recently carried out its attacks using a number of tools. In September, Avast revealed that the threat actor was employing the Bobik botnet to carry out DDoS attacks.
