Revenge for the support of Ukraine: Russian hackers attacked state sites of Belgium

The Belgium Cybersecurity Center states that cyber -attacks fits into the Belgian sites into the strategy of Russian hackers, which has become commonplace. Countries that have announced the support of Ukraine are often victims of hacker attacks. The Internet resources of several state-owned Belgium institutions were victims of massive cyberattacks, which paralyzed the work of sites.

Miguel de Bryuker from the Belgium Cybersecurity Center (CCB) stated that the attack could be a reaction of Russian hackers in support of Ukraine by the Belgian government. About it reports VRT. On Thursday, websites of the Royal Palace of Belgium, the Federal Prime Minister, the House of Representatives and the Senate were disconnected. Where Bryuker reported that as of Friday morning, the attack was still lasted.

CCB has been able to restore the operation of some resources, but hackers constantly change the direction of attack and use other hacking technique. It is likely to be DDOS-attacks that are not intended to steal information. Such hacker attacks on sites servers are sent large amounts of data, which causes the system overload and slowing down the work or complete shutdown of the server.

The CCB noted that they have tracked involved hackers, but it is difficult to protect against attacks of this type. "It is like how if all the cars in the city decided to go to one intersection at the same time. As a result, there would be a traffic jam and movement would be paralyzed. There are methods of prevention another attack technique. It is a game in a cat-","-explained in CCB.

Where Bryuker stated that evil was "only a little bullying" and it is much more important that no confidential information was stolen. According to CCB, everything indicates Russian hackers. On Thursday, on the broken website of Prime Minister Belgium there was a message: "We go to Belgium to destroy sites that hate Russia.

" Where Bryuker added that the Cyber ​​Security Service found several reports in Darknet, which called for attacks on Belgian sites after the visit of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and an announcement of military support from Belgium. The CCB representative also noted that the attack was not a surprise. "This is a well-known phenomenon. At the moment when any country decides to support Ukraine, it becomes a victim of such cyberattacks for one or more days," said de Bryuker.

Recall Google reflects the most powerful DDOS. According to representatives of the company, their product was able to prevent the attack with a capacity of more than 46 million requests per second, and the attack itself lasted about an hour. Earlier, the media reported that Russian hackers had united with Hamas terrorists for cyberattack to Israel. According to journalists, the Killnet group announced that the sites of Israeli state bodies will attack.