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DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

https://status.digdir.no/incidents/d7hvqmf2yr3l
60•e12e•1h ago

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p0w3n3d•49m 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•46m ago
putler?
cyanydeez•45m ago
could just be openai.
motbus3•26m 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.

coffinbirth•24m ago
Your comment is dumb and disgusting. You're comparing Putin with Hitler, thereby showing that you don't know that relatives of Putin were killed by Hitler's troops, e.g. his brother during the siege of Leningrad (1+ million civilians killed), his grandmother was killed as a civilian, his uncles perished during frontline service and his father was severely wounded[1].

By the way, numerous high ranking German politicians regularly also do this kind of comparison, showing the lack of knowledge about the history of their own country. Can anyone show me JUST A SINGLE MEMORIAL in Germany for the 20+ million (lower bound estimate) people killed on the eastern front? Yes, there is one in the heart of Berlin, which the Soviets built in 1945!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Vladimir_Putin

indemnity•14m ago
Maybe you should stop invading other countries if these comparisons hurt your feelings buddy.
coffinbirth•5m ago
I always find it unbelievable how people do not know or just forget about what happened in the east 85 years ago. Really sad. This is one of the primary reasons why people in the west don't understand why Russia cannot accept Ukraine in NATO. It was NATO that expanded to the east, contrary to the agreements after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia said for decades that Ukraine in NATO is unacceptable.
CursedSilicon•5m ago
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just_some_user•40m 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•36m 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•36m 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•35m 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•29m 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•33m ago
Bets on which AI lab it is this time?
roschdal•30m ago
The Internet was supposed to withstand a nuclear attack
pprotas•26m ago
Guess a nuclear attack would actually lessen the load on the global internet, rather than increase it - like a DDOS would!
buildbot•19m ago
"The internet" is currently fine, besides Norwegian government services.

Also something designed to withstand something does not imply it survives other somethings.

leke•28m ago
The bus card ride purchase system was down today in my part of Finland. I wonder if it is related.
AtNightWeCode•17m ago
Many important services with problems. Ouch. My guess is that the root cause is misconfiguration rather than an attack.
spapas82•6m ago
Would the attack be successful is the Norwegian government used a way to protect itself against ddos like cloudflare or akamai?
roflmaostc•34m 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•25m ago
Yes, thats what I meant
cantalopes•31m ago
Imo russia most likely
tuatoru•31m ago
The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.
Crunchified•6m ago
"vast stores of electricity"?
Retr0id•31m 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•25m 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
Retr0id•18m ago
If the attack doesn't last long, bystanders can't know whether it was trivially mitigated by the victim.

A shorter attack won't make as many news headlines, either.

devin•17m ago
Unless part of the social proof is that mitigation is more difficult.
giwook•30m ago
Probably a country that lost to Norway in the World Cup.

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