Pro-Russian hacker group, NoName057, mentioned Tuesday it carried out focused cyberattacks towards Sweden.
“As part of a coordinated attack on Sweden, we have taken down two government websites in the Russophobic country,” it mentioned on Telegram. The group mentioned it believes that it additionally shut down the Swedish Competition Authority’s web site.
Several businesses have reported technical issues.
“We have been exposed to an overload attack”, Per Lovgren, spokesman for the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, IMY, informed the Aftonbladet newspaper.
The company has reported the incident to police however has no data on who’s behind the assault, it mentioned.
The Riksdagen’s web site of the federal government is totally blocked from overseas and troublesome to entry inside Sweden.
“Right now, it can be difficult to reach parts of the Riksdag’s website. we are working on solving the problem,” is the message that greets customers.
“We are looking into why the website is difficult to reach, but right now we don’t know what is the reason,” in accordance with Lena Parkvall, spokesman for the Riksdag administration, in an announcement to Aftonbladet.
Communications supervisor on the Swedish Competition Authority, Erika Svardh, informed reporters: “We were warned that this could happen and then you can protect yourself in different ways, which we managed to do. Among other things, by shutting down access to websites from other countries. So our website is still up and running.”
The Financial Supervisory Authority additionally had issues through the day.
“Our website has been exposed to a load attack. But now it is available again,” mentioned spokesperson Karin Franck.
In an overload assault, a considerable amount of requests are despatched to a web site, making it troublesome to deal with the site visitors.
It could outcome within the web site turning into unavailable to customers.
Source: www.anews.com.tr