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Pro-Kremlin hackers responsible for EU parliament cyberattack

DPA WORLD
Published November 23,2022
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A pro-Kremlin hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the European Parliament's website, according to EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

"Our IT experts are pushing back against it & protecting our systems," she tweeted on Wednesday.

She also stressed that, shortly before, the Parliament had described Russia as a state supporter of terrorism.

Due to the scale of the attack, the parliament's website could only be used to a limited extent on Wednesday, as press officer Jaume Duch had previously announced.

The attacks are known as so-called DDos attacks.

During a DDos attack, attackers overwhelm their victims' servers with a flood of data requests in order to paralyse them.