On Monday, a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault carried out by a group of hackers from Russia caused multiple Belgian governmental sites to go offline.
MyGov.be
, where residents can access official documents, was among the targeted websites, along with those of the Walloon Parliament, the Parliament of the French Community, and some
Brussels
Some government sites stayed inaccessible for some time.
The DDoS assault, during which a site is inundated with an extensive volume of requests, causing it to become overwhelmed and unreachable, was attributed to the pro-Russian hacking group.
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On their Telegram channel, the group stated that the assault was a reaction to a financial aid package of €1 billion.
Belgium
offered to
Ukraine
.
(GF – Source: Belga, NB – Image: © Markus Spiske on Unsplash)
