European Parliament spokesman Jaume Duch tweeted that the institution’s website was down. This is not a trivial act and attention quickly turned to Russia or pro-Russian groups.
Earlier in the day, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling Russia a “terrorist-promoting” state in the war between the country and Ukraine. This follows in particular the Russian attacks targeting a maternity hospital near Zaporizhia.
DDoS use
Therefore, the website of the European Parliament has been inaccessible for several hours this Wednesday. However, the hackers would not have hacked into the institution’s website in the strict sense. A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack would have been carried out according to Jaume Duch.
This type of digital weapon aims to disrupt the operation of a website and, ideally, make it unavailable to users. To do this, hackers can act in different ways. The most common is flooding a network with data to cause machines on the network to crash.
Jaume Duch indicated that the computer attack suffered by the European Parliament was being resolved by Parliament’s technical teams, who wanted the site to return “as soon as possible.” Although a long loading time is still required today, the European Parliament website seems to be slowly getting back on track.
Source: BFM TV
