Up to the Ministry of Defense of the country, the German publication Spiegel stated that hacktivists from the Russian Killnet association carried out a number of DDoS attacks on German government sites earlier this week.Discuss
According to the publication, Killnet carried out cyber attacks on the websites of German law enforcement agencies, ministries and politicians, making them temporarily inaccessible. It is noted that the attacks were directed, inter alia, against the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). hacktivist goals, according to an internal agency report. Some of these sites were also temporarily unavailable due to server overload.
According to the initial assessment of the authorities, the so-called DDoS attacks were digital protests in response to the supply of German weapons to Ukraine.