Authorities checking hacker group’s “threatening” video message

Budapest, December 28 (MTI) – Hungarian authorities are checking the authenticity of a recent video posted by the hacker group Anonymus making a threat against the Hungarian government and ruling Fidesz, two dailies said on Monday.

As we wrote, in the video attached to an e-mail message sent to English-language news portal Daily News Hungary on December, the group “declared war” on the government and Fidesz, which it said turned Hungary into a “dictatorship”, maltreated minorities and built a fence along the southern border “to keep refugees out of the country.”

Bence Tuzson, state secretary for government communications, told Magyar Idok that although the video has not been released on the hacker group’s official website, it must not be ignored. He said the authorities are checking it and would take precautionary measures if need be.

Balazs Bencsik, the head of the national cyber security institute, told Nepszabadsag that the source from where the e-mail message had been sent to the portal was already identified, adding that he had reservations concerning its authenticity.

The authority has, however, taken the matter seriously and enhanced safeguards of the government’s IT systems.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters