Wednesday, August 19, 2026

How improvements implemented after the 2022 crisis helped contain a cyberattack on the Legislative Assembly

A recent cyberattack on Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly was quickly contained by the various bodies and protocols established following the traumatic events of four years ago. Investigations are ongoing to determine the source of the latest incident and the access points used.

Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly faced a new cybersecurity event that forced the temporary suspension of some of its digital services and delayed a session of the Legislative Plenary while specialists assessed the scope of the threat. Although the attack affected access to institutional platforms and the Congress website, authorities said there was no compromise of information or evidence of data extraction. To a large extent, this was the result of measures implemented following the major cybersecurity crisis suffered by Costa Rican institutions in 2022.

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