Russian hackers attacked the website of the European Parliament and managed to stop it for several hours.
Anonymous Russia, an arm of the pro-Russian Killnet group, reportedly launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS).DDoS (Opens in a new tab)) Attack on the website of the European Parliament.
President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola has been confirmed (Opens in a new tab) The incident tweeted, adding that “IT experts are fighting back and protecting our systems.”
Resolution of the European Parliament
“The availability of the Europarl_EN website is currently affected externally due to high levels of external network traffic,” Dauch was quoted as saying. “This traffic is associated with a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack event. The EP teams are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.”
The attack appeared to be a response to a recently adopted European Parliament resolution declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, and a state that “uses the means of terrorism”.
In a news article published on the European Parliament’s website, MEPs are said to have called on the EU to “increase Russia’s isolation internationally, including when it comes to Russia’s membership in international organizations and bodies such as the United Nations Security Council.”
MEPs also wish to reduce diplomatic relations with Russia, keep EU contacts with official Russian representatives to an absolute minimum, and close and ban Russian state institutions in the EU that spread propaganda around the world.
Killnet has been quite an active group lately, but they haven’t exactly built a name for themselves. It recently managed to take down the websites of multiple airports across the US (flights were not affected), also targeting JPMorgan Chase, as well as the US Treasury.
In all of these incidents, the effects were minor, and the FBI described the attacks as weak.
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