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Suspected Russian hackers kept the operators of federal and parliamentary websites on their toes for days – some sites were down for days. Since Wednesday morning, they have also been attacking websites of cities and cantons with so-called DDoS attacks.
Last week it was announced that sensitive federal government data had been stolen in a hacker attack on the IT company Xplain. The federal prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation and the federal government has launched criminal charges. Apparently, so-called operational data was also stolen and published on the dark web. It is currently being analyzed whether sensitive data has been included.
According to the current state of the investigation, the Xplain attack is unrelated to the current DDoS attacks on the federal and cantonal websites. However, there seems to be a relatively clear link between the cyber attacks and Ukrainian President Zelensky’s (45) speech scheduled for tomorrow’s Federal Assembly.
“It comes as no surprise to me – it is now clear that the conflict in which the world is mired also affects Switzerland. Of course also in connection with Mr Selenski’s speech, which will take place tomorrow,” SVP councilor and IT entrepreneur Franz Grüter (59) told Blick TV.
“The federal government has not done its homework here,” says Grüter. It is clear to him that such attacks had to be reckoned with. There are modern systems that can prevent such attacks, and Grüter is surprised that the federal government or the Ministry of Defense have not yet introduced such systems.
However, IT security experts put this into perspective. Fending off such attacks is no easy feat, says Sandro Bachmann (32), cybersecurity analyst at Infoguard. “As attackers evolve their DDoS attacks, proven preventive measures may no longer be sufficient for the current attack pattern.”
Depending on the complexity of the website and available resources, restarting the site can take several days, Bachmann continues.
Source:Blick
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