Overnight into Friday, public sector institutions in Estonia were hit by ten cyberattacks.While this is more than usual, according to Veikko Raasuke, chief of CERT Estonia (CERT-EE) at the Information System Authority (RIA), it was nonetheless nothing out of the ordinary.
“These were typical distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which occur constantly against various institutions and companies,” Raasuke said, adding that the impact of these attacks was minimal.
He did not specify which institutions were affected.
DDoS attacks against Estonia’s public sector institutions and private companies’ e-services have become a nearly daily occurrence.
Read more: ERR.EE
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