Cepro

Cepro is anorganisation that operates under the alias Cepro. Its headquarters are located in Czechia. The organisation is owned by the Czech Finance Minister. This ownership links it to the portfolio of companies under the minister’s control. No further details about its core products or services are provided in the source material.

On 1 August 2016, Cepro was subjected to a distributed denial‑of‑service attack. The attack was carried out by the hacker collective known as Anonymous. The action was part of the operation labelled #OpBlokada. Anonymous targeted several companies owned by the Czech Finance Minister, with Cepro being one of them. The campaign was launched in protest against a newly proposed online gambling law in the Czech Republic. The hackers argued that the legislation would grant excessive authority to block websites and could enable broader internet censorship. They warned that further actions would follow if the law proceeded. In response, the Czech government maintained that the measures were intended to combat tax evasion within the gambling sector. The incident was reported by securityweek and softpedia, providing the primary sources for the overview. These facts constitute the entirety of the publicly available information about Cepro in the given context.