Albania has expressed its full solidarity with France following devastating cyberattacks, for which Paris has directly accused the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Ferit Hoxha recalled the 2022 cyberattacks against our country and stressed that such attacks cannot be tolerated or go unpunished for their perpetrators.
“Albania expresses its full solidarity with France following devastating cyberattacks of an unprecedented scale, carried out by a cyber offensive unit linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. Albania knows very well, from its own experience, what France is facing today.
In 2022, our country itself became the target of brutal and destructive cyber operations undertaken by Iranian state actors. Cyberattacks sponsored or supported by states cannot be normalized, tolerated, or turned into an instrument of threat, and must not go unpunished for their perpetrators.
An attack on critical infrastructure is an attack on the very functioning and security of a society, whether it is carried out with explosives or with a malicious code. Europe must stand united, strengthen its collective resilience, and ensure that those responsible for such acts are held accountable.”, Hoxha wrote on X.