Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day

The Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have disclosed a cyber-attack that unfolded during the award ceremony on December 10, 2021. The Nobel prize ceremony is being livestreamed from Oslo and Stockholm, and as such, DDoS attacks can interrupt the video feed and possibly even blemish the prestige of the institution. As revealed, the institution's site was hit by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack which aims to overwhelm a website with high volumes of “garbage” traffic and a large number of bogus connection requests. This action depletes the available server resources and renders the website unable to serve real visitors, therefore it appears as if it went offline.

Read more about it here.