A cyber attack Access to the European Parliament’s website was paralyzed hours after the parliamentary majority was approved by a large majority. Russia As a state that supports terrorism.
Although the European authorities did not link the two events, a spokesman for the European Parliament said: james duchconfirmed that this was “external influence from high levels of external network traffic”.
In technical language, this type is known as aggression. Distributed Denial of Service Attack (or DDoS for its English acronym) is a simple and effective method used by cybercriminals to block access to a particular website. Attackers often resort to the following networks: boots by organizing large flows of information into a single IP address, making it unresponsive to high-volume connection requests and thus preventing access.
“European Parliament teams, solve this problem as soon as possible“, also added the European chamber communications director general in a message on his Twitter profile. Further details about the scope and author of the attack are currently unknown.
Some information is from the cybercriminal group KILLNET. Kremlinwould take responsibility for this attack, the information is still to be verified European Union (EU), something
Founded in the heat of the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, this pro-Russian digital activist group is known for carrying out DDoS attacks against both government agencies and private companies. Previously, KILLNET has claimed responsibility for carrying out attacks on the FBI, US arms giant Lockheed Martin, the digital portal of governments such as Japan or the Czech Republic, and is even suspected of trying to undermine the Eurovision Song Contest celebrations this year. year.