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Estonia targeted again by Cyber Attacks

Sources: NewYork Times, Reuters

 

Estonia revealed on Thursday that it had countered the biggest wave of cyberattacks targeted at government infrastructre in over ten years, which occurred shortly after the removal of a war memorial Soviet-era tank on its border with Russia.

 

The Estonian government, one of Europe’s strident supporters of Ukraine, announced that it would remove all Soviet monuments from public spaces, describing them as “symbols of repression and Soviet occupation” that had led to “increasing social tensions.”

 

The cyberattacks, claimed by Killnet, a Russian hacker group, began on Wednesday soon after the Estonian military dismantled a war memorial  in the city of Narva and began moving its centerpiece, a T-34 tank, to a museum in the capital, Tallinn.

 

"Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyberattacks it has faced since 2007," tweeted Luukas Ilves, under-secretary for digital transformation at Estonia's Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications on Thursday.

However, he said the attacks went “largely unnoticed in Estonia” and despite “some brief and minor exceptions, websites remained fully available throughout the day”.

 

The hackers used a DDoS attack, which is when a network is flooded with high volumes of data that it cannot handle and results in the network being paralysed.



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