The Website of the European Parliament was down for several hours on Wednesday after “pro-Kremlin” hackers retaliated against Russia being designated a state sponsor of terrorism, according to reports.
Earlier in the day, as reported by Reuters, European lawmakers voted in favor announcing Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, saying the country’s military strikes on hospitals, schools and energy infrastructure violate international law.
Hacker in dark hoodie sitting in front of laptop with digital Russian flag and binary streams on cyber security concept background
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The declaration is mostly symbolic because the European Union cannot establish a legal basis for the declaration.
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After the vote, hackers took down the European Parliament’s website for several hours, according to Reuters, using a distributed denial-of-service attack. Two hours later, the site was up and running again.
“The European Parliament is under the leadership of A sophisticated cyber attack“, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metzola, reported on Twitter. “The pro-Kremlin group took responsibility. Our IT professionals are against it [and] protecting our systems.
“This is after we declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. My answer: #SlavaUkraine,” she added, meaning “Glory to Ukraine.”
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A distributed denial-of-service attack is a “malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a target server, service, or network by flooding the target or surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.”
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