Kerry County Council’s IT unit continues to monitor the potential for a cyber attack after receiving an alert from the National Cyber Security Centre.
On Friday evening, the centre issued an alert to the council about the potential for such an attack on the local authority’s email and IT system.
The National Cyber Security Centre notified Kerry County Council about this and also warned the local authority about suspicious activity arising from traffic from Russian IP addresses as well as some domains and sub-domains.
All council staff have been asked to be vigilant when it comes to receiving emails as well as other online activity.
The council’s IT unit has responded to the alert from the National Cyber Security Centre and continues to monitor the situation.
Council services are not currently impacted by the alert.
