2023-11-09 18:47:45
Several institutional sites were temporarily unavailable Thursday evening, possibly due to a cyberattack by the pro-Russian hacker group.NoName“. The latter criticized Belgium’s support for Ukraine on X, formerly Twitter. The sites of the Chamber, the Senate and the Monarchy are affected.
The Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) confirms that there was indeed information surrounding a new attack and therefore informed the competent services. “Overall, disruptions were limited“, said spokesperson Katrien Eggers. On X, formerly Twitter, the pro-Russian hacker group expressed its dissatisfaction with our country’s support for Ukraine on Thursday.
“The Belgian authorities, who are disinterested in the problems of their own citizens and seem to forget the crisis situation in their economy, have created a fund to support Ukraine“, we can read in particular. Last month, several institutional sites were also unavailable for a while due to a DDOS (denial of service) attack. The websites were then unable to re-establish the connection due to the fact that hackers used a lot of computers to send a stream of information to the server in question, causing websites to work more slowly and sometimes become unresponsive to users.
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