ESTONIA REPELLED THE ‘MOST EXTENSIVE’ CYBER ATTACK LINKED TO REMOVAL OF SOVIET MEMORIAL

Workers remove a Soviet T-34 tank installed as a monument in Narva, Estonia, on August 16.

Thu 18 August 2022:

Estonia claimed on Thursday that it had stopped “the most extensive cyber attack since 2007” shortly after demolishing Soviet monuments in a region with a sizable Russian ethnic population.

More than 200 public and private institutions in Estonia, including an online citizen identity system, had their access to the network blocked, according to the Russian hacker collective Killnet, which claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday.

💥FLASH INFO #Estonia 🇪🇪: A #Narva (#Estonie), les autorités ont débuté la démolition du char T-34, monument aux soldats soviétiques.
Pour une raison inconnue, les démolisseurs se sont mis des cagoules pour démanteler le monument.😂#Russia 🇷🇺 #Donbass 🇷🇺 #Zaporijjia 🇷🇺#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9Bt6Aik05D

— Militant.André.D (@Circonscripti18) August 16, 2022

However, a government representative for Estonia claimed on Thursday that the attack didn’t have much of an overall effect.

“Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007,” tweeted Luukas Ilves, undersecretary for digital transformation at Estonia’s ministry of economic affairs and communications.

A Soviet Tu-34 tank was taken off the display on Tuesday in the town of Narva and placed in a museum, according to Killnet, which claimed responsibility for a strike identical to this one in Lithuania in June. In a DDoS attack, hackers attempt to overwhelm a network with unusually large amounts of data traffic in an effort to bring it to a standstill when it is unable to handle the volume of data demanded.

After experiencing significant cyberattacks on both public and private websites in 2007, which it attributed to Russians enraged over its removal of a Soviet-era statue, Estonia attempted to strengthen cyber security. After the Red Army monument was removed from a square in Tallinn, ethnic Russians rioted for two nights.

The Estonian government on Tuesday ordered the immediate removal of all public Soviet memorials in the town of Narva, which has a large Russian-speaking population. Additionally, they claimed that Russia was aiming to further polarize Estonian society by using the past.

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