Estonia: The Office of the President's website has been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for the past three weeks, while most recently it was hit by a massive cyber attack last Saturday, when it received around 40 million views in a few hours. Read more about it: here Latvia: Last week, the website of the office of the President of Latvia "www.president.lv" experienced increased DDoS or access failure attacks, similar to the one in Estonia, informs Madara Krutova, representative of the information technology (IT) security incident prevention institution "Cert.lv". Read more about it: here  

On June 20, 2022, the Chargé d'Affaires of Lithuania was summoned by the Russian state, to be informed that they must restore the passage of Russian goods through the Kaliningrad railway station. Otherwise, they threatened Lithuania to "take actions to protect [Russia’s] national interests." A few hours later, the DDoS criminal syndicate Killnet tasked their squads to target a selection of Lithuanian institutions' websites with full power. Among other victims are the national police, two mobile network providers (BITE and Telia) and a bank (LPB). Read more about it: here and here

Black Basta Ransomware Victim: The Wiener Zeitung media group Read more about it: here

The building materials manufacturer Knauf has become the target of a cyber attack. This was announced by the company based in Iphofen (Kitzingen district) on Thursday. The "Main-Post" had previously reported on it. On Wednesday night, previously unknown perpetrators attacked the group's IT infrastructure, it said: "The attack was recognized immediately and professionally isolated as a result." Parts of the systems have been temporarily shut down for security reasons and for further IT forensic investigations. This affects the supply chains of the group. The company did not provide any further information. Read more about it: here

Mayor Kulemzin: the website of the Donetsk administration "Russian side" was subjected to a DDoS attack, the resource is temporarily unavailable. Read more about it: here

The Russian Federation carried out a cyber attack on the IT infrastructure of the DTEK Group. The attackers' goal is to destabilize the technological processes of generating and distribution companies and undermine the energy security of Ukraine, as well as to spread known false information about the companies' work through state propaganda bodies, and as a result, to leave Ukrainian consumers without electricity. Read more about it: here

#KILLNET claims to have launched #DoS attacks against Energijos Skirstymo Operatorius AB (#ESO), an energy company based in Lithuania 🇱🇹. ESO's website appears down at the moment... Read more about it: here Lithuania's state-owned energy group Ignitis said it was hit by "the biggest cyber attack in a decade" on Saturday. Ignitis said it had experienced DDoS attacks, affecting the operation of its websites and digital services. However, the attacks were taken under control by noon the same day. "There were no recorded hacks into the systems or other adverse effects," the group said in a statement. Ignitis later resumed digital services for customers, but the cyber attack on the infrastructure continued. . Read more about it: here

The company Coretrek was probably exposed to a denial of service attack on Monday, similar to what we saw against the Norwegian authorities last week. It affected several websites. A denial of service attack, also called a DDoS attack, takes place when someone uses a network of computers to send large amounts of traffic to a website. As a result, the website is unable to receive all the traffic and goes down. According to the Telegram channel of the Russian hacker network Killnet, Russian hackers are behind the attacks. This time it is the hacker group "NoName057" who will be behind it. On NoName057's Telegram channel it is claimed that they have hit Bastø Fosen and Boreal. These websites have also been down. They also have Coretrek as a supplier. Read more about it: here

The government detected cyber attacks against the FPS Home Affairs and Defence. They "significantly affected our sovereignty, democracy, security and society," according to the press release. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both attacks can be linked to Chinese hacker groups. The hackers had access to the network at the Interior for two years. The Center for Cybersecurity (CCB) had previously suggested that the attack appeared to be the work of an intelligence agency. Due to the cyber attack at Defense, the network was cut off from the internet for weeks and mail traffic with the outside world was interrupted.  Read more about it: here

La cyberattaque lancée contre le groupe Caisse Centrale de Réassurance vient d’être publiquement revendiquée par un groupe inconnu à ce jour, dit « Lilith ». Il menace de divulguer plus de 1 To de données. Read more about it: here