Finland parliament’s website hit by DDoS launched by Russian hackers

Finnish parliament’s websites were under DDoS attack. The hacker group who took responsibility is pro-Russian and explained it as a response to Finland’s aspiration towards joining NATO. The attack happened on the same day of the US president signing of ratification documents for Finland’s application to NATO.

Yesterday, the external websites of the Finnish parliament were inaccessible for a couple of hours due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched by pro-Russian hackers. They explained the reason for this attack as a response to Finland’s aspiration towards joining NATO. This hacker group called NoName057(16) took the responsibility for the attack on their Telegram channel.

In the post, the hackers said that ‘We decided to pay a ‘friendly’ visit to neighboring Finland, whose authorities are so eager to join NATO.’ The DDoS attack happened on the same day US president Joe Biden signed ratification documents regarding Washington’s support for Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

The Finnish parliament replied to this event stating that they will take steps to limit the attack alongside with service providers and the Cyber security Center.