The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, participated in the discussion on “Cybersecurity: Is disinformation the next threat?”, within the Conference on Information Integrity organized by NDI.

During this discussion, Kurti said that we have a solid but not sufficient defense in terms of cybers attacks.

“I believe that we have a solid defense, but not enough. We have had two major cases of DIDOS attacks on government servers and we have succeeded in spite of the obstacles they have caused us. They did not manage to penetrate the system, to damage our system, but they made it difficult for us to operate”, said Kurti.

The prime minister added that cybers attacks are not only those that want to harm or steal, but we also have attacks in the framework of hybrid warfare.

“We are also learning from the case of Albania, but the attacks are not the only ones that want to harm or steal you, there are also attacks within the framework of what is being called the hybrid war, that is, the infiltration with true sources, with untrue news and often with untrue stories which are made public by certain centers”, said Kurti.

Kurti added that we have cybers attacks on government systems and not only, and on the other side we also have those which are attacks that do not aim at the collapse of the system but at the deformation of opinion.

He has said that addressing cyber security threats requires cooperation with allies.