Estonia Says It Has Repelled A Major Cyber Attack After Removing Soviet Monuments

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register VILNIUS, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Estonia has repelled “the most extensive cyber attacks since 2007”, it said on Thursday, shortly after Soviet monuments were removed in a Russian-majority region. Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the attack, saying on its Telegram account on Wednesday that it had blocked access to more than 200 Estonian state and private institutions, such as an online citizen identification system. However, an Estonian government official said on Thursday that the impact of the attack was limited. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register “Yesterday, Estonia received the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007,” tweeted Lukas Ilves, undersecretary for digital transformation at Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. “With some brief and minor exceptions, websites remained fully available throughout the day. The attack went largely unnoticed in Estonia,” he added. Killnet, which launched a similar attack against Lithuania in June, said it acted after a Soviet Tu-34 tank was removed from public display in the city of Narva at a museum on Tuesday. read more In a DDoS attack, hackers attempt to flood a network with unusually large volumes of data traffic to cripple it when it can no longer handle the scale of data being requested. Estonia moved to strengthen cyber security in 2007 after suffering widespread attacks on public and private websites it blamed on Russians angered by the removal of a Soviet-era statue. The Red Army monument was moved from a Tallinn square and two nights of rioting by Russians followed. The Estonian government has ordered the swift removal of all public Soviet monuments in the Russian-speaking majority of Narva, citing rising tensions in the city and accusing Russia of trying to exploit the past to divide Estonian society. read more Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Reporting by Andrius Sytas in Vilnius Editing by Mark Potter Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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