The websites of several Swiss federal agencies and state-linked companies were inaccessible on Monday, June 12, 2023, due to a cyber-attack.
Switzerland’s finance ministry has confirmed that the sites were hit by the DDoS attack, which aims to overload websites and applications with targeted requests so that they become inaccessible.
The Swiss authorities added that specialists in the federal administration immediately noticed the attack and are taking measures to restore accessibility to websites and applications as quickly as possible.
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was claimed by NoName, a pro-Russia hacking group specializing in such attacks against Ukrainian and European organizations.
The group was also behind the attack on Swiss Parliament last week.
Switzerland’s federal government was already investigating a ransomware attack on Xplain, a Swiss software vendor with ties with multiple government agencies, including the Swiss army, the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) and the national railway company (FSS).
Image Credits : Financial Times
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