Thu 08 December 2022:
Denmark’s defence ministry was hit by a cyberattack on Thursday that had cut off access to its websites, although it had no impact on its operations, the ministry said on Twitter.
The websites were hit by so-called distributed denials of service (DDoS), which direct a firehose of traffic towards targeted servers in a bid to knock them offline, the ministry said.
“Currently, there is no knowledge of other impacts than the lack of access to web portals – there are thus no operational consequences for the defence,” it said on Twitter.
What was previously assessed to be a technical problem on the defence’s websites turns out to be an overload attack (DDos), where the underlying web servers are stressed to such an extent that they cannot respond and display the normal web pages.
Defense Group IT is working to ensure that the overload from outside is stopped. At present, there is no knowledge of other impacts than the lack of access to web portals – there are thus no operational consequences for the defence, ministry added.
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