Russia-aligned hacktivists persistently goal key private and non-private organizations within the Netherlands with distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults, inflicting entry issues and repair disruptions.
The scenario was acknowledged by way of an announcement by the nation’s Nationwide Cyber Safety Heart (NCSC), a part of the Dutch Ministry of Justice.
“This week, a number of Dutch organizations have been focused by large-scale DDoS assaults,” reads the NCSC announcement.
“The DDoS assaults are directed at each Dutch and different European organizations. Inside the Netherlands, each private and non-private entities are being attacked.”
The NCSC famous that the assaults have been claimed by the hacktivist group named NoName057(16) on the risk actor’s Telegram channel.
Though the NCSC stated the risk actor’s motive is unclear, NoName057(16) declared it was retribution for the Netherlands sending €6 billion in army assist to Ukraine and planning to allocate one other €3.5 billion in 2026.
The risk group’s newest message on Telegram from yesterday signifies that the assaults proceed.
In accordance with native media retailers, the DDoS assaults have impacted the provinces of Groningen, Noord-Holland, Zeeland, Drenthe, Overijssel, Noord-Brabant, and the municipalities of Apeldoorn, Breda, Nijmegen, and Tilburg.
The web portals of those public organizations have been reportedly unreachable for a number of hours this week, although in response to officers, there was no compromise of inside techniques or information.
NoName057(16) is a risk actor that, since March 2022, has had vital involvement in quite a few DDoS assaults concentrating on European and American organizations.
The risk group even launched a crowdsourced DDoS platform referred to as ‘DDoSIA‘ the place “volunteers” would receives a commission to lend their firepower in assaults.
The platform grew to become very profitable, recruiting 1000’s of customers in below a 12 months and launching a number of disruptive assaults on Western entities.
In July 2024, the Spanish authorities arrested three members of DDoSIA and seized their units for additional investigation.
Nevertheless, there was no vital follow-up within the operation, and the leaders of the risk group haven’t been named or indicted but, and so the DDoS assaults proceed.
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