class=”sc-29f61514-0 jbwksb”>
After a hacker attack on Tuesday, several federal government websites are still inaccessible. According to the Cybersecurity Center, the attack was extremely violent. The attackers are said to have ties to Russia. The motives are unclear.
Hackers are constantly adapting their tactics to the protection measures taken, the National Center for Cyber Security (NCSC) announced on Tuesday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.
According to the center, the “Noname” group responsible for Monday’s attack has Russian connections. We can only speculate about the motives at this point.
Leading up to Selenski’s speech
With regard to the video broadcast of a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (45) in the National Council Chamber on Thursday, the NCSC indicated that the parliamentary services will do everything possible to ensure that things run smoothly. For security reasons, there is no specific information about the measures.
In general, the NCSC announced that the federal administration is continuously working on its digital security systems. Monday’s attack on the federal administration and related businesses was large-scale and high-intensity. Certain applications are no longer accessible since Monday morning.
DDos attack on systems
The reason is a so-called DDoS attack on the systems of the federal government, the federal government writes in a press release on Monday after the attack. Among other things, the parlament.ch website was partially unavailable.
A DDoS attack involves overloading websites and applications with targeted requests, so that they are no longer accessible. But no data is lost.
Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility for the attack
The group “NoName” has confessed to the attack. This paralyzed Parliament’s website last week. Now apparently other pages are also affected. On Telegram, the pro-Russian group justifies the attack by saying that Switzerland has adopted EU sanctions against Russia. We are talking about the tenth package of sanctions that Switzerland adopted “this week”.
In fact, Switzerland had already passed here in March. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is said to have thanked Switzerland for this, it is said. The group is probably referring to the meeting between Federal President Alain Berset (51) and Selenski last week at the European summit in the Moldovan capital Chisinau. In return, “Thank you” “NoName” “to the Swiss Russophobes” with “DDoS missiles” on the Swiss parliament website.
Fedpol was also a victim of a cyber attack
Recently, the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) and the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (BAZF), as well as several cantonal police forces, fell victim to another cyber-attack. Hackers had stolen data from an IT service provider and published it on the dark web. Last weekend it was also announced that the canton of Aargau and the SBB were also affected by the attack on the XPlain company located in Interlaken BE.
The federal prosecutor’s office announced last week that it has opened criminal proceedings following the attack on the website of the Parliamentary Service. Monday’s attacks are also the subject of this investigation, the authority said when asked. (IHA/SDA)
Source:Blick
I am Liam Livingstone and I work in a news website. My main job is to write articles for the 24 Instant News. My specialty is covering politics and current affairs, which I’m passionate about. I have worked in this field for more than 5 years now and it’s been an amazing journey. With each passing day, my knowledge increases as well as my experience of the world we live in today.
