The European Parliament’s Website was hit by a Cyberattack claimed by Killnet

On November 23rd, the European Parliament was hit by a cyberattack that was orchestrated and claimed by a Pro-Kremlin Group called Killnet. The attack came after Europe declared Russia as “a state sponsor of terrorism”.

Dita Charnzova, Czech MEP and Parliament VP of Cybersecurity confirmed a DDOS attack on the Parliament’s website but ensured that the services are well-prepared to handle such incidents.

However, the DDOS attack that hit the parliament on Wednesday did take  it down for  brief amount of time.

🚨The availability of @Europarl_EN website is currently impacted from outside due to high levels of external network traffic.
This traffic is related to a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) event.
EP teams are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

— Jaume Duch (@jduch) November 23, 2022

The European Parliament’s Cyberattack and Killnet’s malicious intent

The Killnet, anonymous Russia and part of the pro-Russian hacktivist entity claimed the attack in a Telegram message stating that the European Parliament sponsors homosexualism. The Killnet cybercrime group usually backs Russia and have already struck Lithuania in the past, to intimidate European opposers of the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine.

The @Europarl_EN is under a sophisticated cyberattack. A pro-Kremlin group has claimed responsibility.

Our IT experts are pushing back against it & protecting our systems.

This, after we proclaimed Russia as a State-sponsor of terrorism.

My response: #SlavaUkraini

— Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) November 23, 2022

Furthermore, in August Killnet already targeted Estonian Government Services, stating it to be the largest attack after 2008. Killnet have also been heavily involved in several Italian organizations stating that Italy was squashed like a mosquito after their attacks.

As per Politico, Belgium’s national cybersecurity center confirmed that there is an active investigation into the details of the attack. The coincidence is that the European Parliament ruled Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.

TheMEPs also stated that they want diplomatic relations with Russia to be reduced, EU contracts with Russian entities will be made minimum, with Russian state-affiliated organization based out of EU will be closed and permanently banned.

Yesterday, we just posted that 34 Russian Cybercrime Groups stole 50 million passwords across 111 countries with the USA on top of those victims loosing 91,000 passwords and now the EU Parliament Cyberattack comes next using a DDOS maneuver.

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