Pro-Kremlin hackers responsible for EU parliament cyberattack

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.