The attacks resulted in minor outages.
GENEVA - Switzerland government websites were hit on June 13 by the first of an expected wave of cyberattacks ahead of a
The National Cyber Security Centre said the distributed denial-of-service attacks, which make websites or network resources unavailable by flooding them with malicious traffic, resulted in minor outages. “A first DDoS attack on various federal government websites and organisations involved in the summit on peace in Ukraine began this morning,” the NCSC said.
“The attacks were expected and are presumed to be in connection with the summit. They resulted in minor outages ... The operation of the affected units was not significantly affected.”“The DDoS attacks are intended to impact the availability of websites. The security of data and systems was never at risk. Hacktivists use such cyberattacks to launch disruptive manoeuvres in cyberspace to spread political messages and attract attention,” it said.
Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow said it was not interested in attending the conference and therefore was not invited. AFPResend verification e-mail
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