Swiss Government Targeted by DDoS after the Ransomware from last week
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The finance ministry of Switzerland has confirmed that several websites belonging to Swiss federal agencies and state-linked companies were rendered inaccessible on June 12, 2023, due to a cyber-attack. Swiss authorities promptly detected the attack and are working to restore website and application accessibility as quickly as possible.
The attack is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that has been claimed by NoName, a pro-Russia threat group. The group also claimed responsibility for a similar attack on the Swiss Parliament on June 7-8.
In addition to these incidents, Switzerland's federal government has initiated an investigation into a ransomware attack on Xplain on 3rd June 2023. Xplain is a Swiss software vendor with affiliations to multiple government agencies, including the Swiss army, the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol), and the national railway company (FSS)
Xplain has confirmed the attack and believes it originated from the Play ransomware group.
