Government websites affected by cyberattacks – VG

The Norwegian government’s own website is influenced by a number of massive cyberattacks in the united STATES.

– It is slow on the government.no. Some don’t come in on the side. If nothing else is wrong, so is the government.en affected by nettangrepet in the united STATES. This can be repercussions, but we follow with an ongoing basis, ” says managing director Trond Øvstedal in NSM to NTB late Friday night.

the Problems is also confirmed by departementenes security and service organization.

– the Government.en is periodically down for the audience because of something that probably is caused by a larger DDoS attack on several sites. Departementenes security and service organization (DSS) is working in cooperation with our subcontractors to handle the situation, ” says head of department, Beate Erikstad in a press release late Friday night.

The u.s. internet service provider Dyn are now warning customers about a new massive DDoS-attack is in time. The third nettangrepet is “well planned and executed”, reports CNBC.

Members of a group that calls itself the New World Hackers to assume responsibility for the attack. In a Twitter conversation with news agency AP says the two members that the group consists of 30 people, spread between Russia, China and India. 10 of these participated in the attack.

Stålsetter itself for the new attacks

Friday’s first attack against the company’s server infrastructure in the united STATES occurred just after the clock 13 Friday Norwegian time.

Almost ten hours and a further one DDoS attack later ask Dyn customers to prepare for another attack. DDoS attacks are coming from tens of millions of IP addresses at the same time and is well planned, informs the internettselskapet to CNBC.

Popular web services like Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, PayPal, and Playstation Network are hit by the large-scale attack.

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Problems in Norway

NSM lit earlier in the evening that the Norwegian web pages are probably not affected by the nettangrepene in the united STATES, which in large extent has affected the east coast. But because many europeans visit american websites, Norway will also be affected.

If anyone in Norway has the equipment, websites, and or computers that are depending on these services, so they will also have problems. It shows the status from NorCERT, which monitors web traffic in and out of Norway, explains Øvstedal.

Great service

IT the newspaper has an overview of what web services are affected.

It was the internet service provider Dyn, which stated that the company’s server infrastructure in the united STATES was the victim of a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) just after the clock 13 Friday. Dyn publish updates about cyberattacks on an ongoing basis.

(VG/NTB)