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DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

https://status.digdir.no/incidents/d7hvqmf2yr3l
54•e12e•57m ago

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p0w3n3d•29m ago
There has been also DDoS against my friend's employer ISP. He had to work a lot to mitigate. There was a random request before
nubg•26m ago
putler?
cyanydeez•24m ago
could just be openai.
motbus3•5m ago
Could be, but it does not look like any of the ways they done before. Anyone who benefits from instability would be at win, from internal political competition, foreign companies trying to sell flocked up systems and the list could be huge.

Not saying it was not who you think it was, Im just saying it does not have enough information yet to be the only explanation or at least the most obvious one.

just_some_user•19m ago
The actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it. A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddies, but such attacks are usually very short lived as attacks are expensive. So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?
iwontberude•16m ago
those script kiddies control botnets in foreign countries and use them to attack stuff just bc. its not their compute, so no marginal cost to them
InTheArena•15m ago
What do they benefit from taking down any government, NGO or civic work program? American systems, as well as larger European systems are constantly attacked. I've seen the same traffic. Fire walling off China, North Korea and smaller eastern European countries is a must if you ever plan to expose any internet exposed services.
cynicalsecurity•14m ago
Really, you have no one in mind? Someone who is sending hundreds of bombing drones daily to Ukraine, killing civilian population, women and children, and who is eager to send a message to NATO countries any way possible?
motbus3•9m ago
That is much less effective than every other manner they tested on the past few years such as shadow fleets, ghost satellites etc.

Up to the moment it has not been the operation adopted which would make it weird.

On who would do it then, anyone who benefits from instability. From corporations trying to sell flocked uped sytems, politicians, etc.

There is one south american country who was attacked exactly this way before their head of the government was kidnapped.

kachnuv_ocasek•12m ago
Bets on which AI lab it is this time?
roschdal•9m ago
The Internet was supposed to withstand a nuclear attack
pprotas•5m ago
Guess a nuclear attack would actually lessen the load on the global internet, rather than increase it - like a DDOS would!
leke•7m ago
The bus card ride purchase system was down today in my part of Finland. I wonder if it is related.
roflmaostc•13m ago
is there actually any source those attacks are really done by "script kiddies"?

More likely this more politically motivated and backed up by money and more capable groups

just_some_user•4m ago
Yes, thats what I meant
cantalopes•10m ago
Imo russia most likely
tuatoru•10m ago
The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.
Retr0id•10m ago
DDoS tends to be monetised as DDoS-as-a-service. Taking down "significant" services is good advertising. Either that, or they plan to extort the Norwegian government.
just_some_user•5m ago
But for such a "proof of power" a short attack which takes the service down once is enough, long attacks are not so common and actually require some work from the attacker
giwook•9m ago
Probably a country that lost to Norway in the World Cup.

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