The Parliament of Finland announced Tuesday, August 9 that its website was the subject of a computer attack, at a time when this Nordic country is a candidate for NATO membership following the invasion of Ukraine. by Russia.
"
A denial of service attack is underway against the Parliament's website
," the latter said in a statement.
The attack, which involves making a service unavailable, began around 2:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. GMT), slowing down or making it impossible to access the website, according to the press release.
A few hours later, no official information had been provided regarding the alleged perpetrators of the attack.
"
Parliament is taking steps to limit the attack
," the statement said.
At the end of July, the Finnish news agency STT was the target of a cyberattack which compromised the dissemination of its articles and photos for several days.
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In April, the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Finnish government came under cyber attack, but their problems were quickly resolved.
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (SUPO) warned in May that Russia had "
the will
" to influence Finland's NATO bid process and that "
various attempts
were to be expected". " in this direction.
The director of these services Antti Pelttari estimated that Finland would face “
an increasing number
” of cyberattacks.
Denial of service attacks “
attempt to make society appear to be crippled, but they are not capable of causing real damage
,” he said in April.