This attack in the form of distributed denial of service (DDoS), which prevents access to sites by saturating them with access requests, is claimed by the “Unnamed” group, already responsible for a similar attack last week on the Swiss site . Parliament, indicates a government press release.
“Specialists from the federal administration quickly noticed the attack and are taking steps to restore the accessibility of websites and applications as soon as possible,” the statement said.
no data loss
The National Cyber Security Center is investigating, but the press release does not yet provide any details about the “Unnamed” hackers. The Center “analyzes the attack with the affected administrative services and defines the appropriate measures”, emphasize the authorities, who specify that no data is lost in DDoS attacks.
In early June, Swiss authorities said they were investigating another cyberattack against a service provider whose customers include many departments of the federal and cantonal administration, including the army and federal police.
The PLAY hacker group’s attack targeted Xplain AG, a Swiss company specializing in IT solutions for national security. In this case, it was a ransomware attack where hackers encrypt the data on their victim’s computer and only make it accessible again for ransom. PLAY had disclosed some of the stolen data to increase the pressure.
Xplain’s director, Andreas Löwinger, told AFP that the company had not contacted the hackers and refused to pay a ransom. Recently, two Swiss media outlets, CH Media and NZZ, were also targeted by PLAY.
Source: BFM TV
