The websites of, among others, the municipalities of The Hague, Den Bosch and Delft and the provinces of Zuid-Holland and Overijssel were temporarily difficult to reach on Monday due to a suspected DDOS attack. Notubiz, the supplier of a service that the municipalities and provinces use to publish messages, announced this to the ANP news agency. Among other things, the pages with councils and states were difficult to reach due to the attack.
The municipality of The Hague announced that it has noticed ‘large quantities of network traffic towards their systems’. The province of South Holland also reported the malfunction. “The information that is normally available via Notubiz is unfortunately not accessible at the moment.”
The NATO summit takes place in The Hague on Tuesday and Wednesday. In recent weeks, cyber attacks have been warned several times during the top.
Noname057 (16)
With a DDOS attack, a site or a service is flooded with data traffic, making it difficult to reach. The data of the affected websites are not in danger.
The disturbance is possible the work of the pro-Russian hackers group Noname05716, writes the ANP. This organization was also behind last April’s attack, also aimed at websites of Dutch provinces and municipalities.
Noname057 (16) regularly carries out attacks on sites in countries that support Ukraine. Earlier this month was also the website of NRC target of a DDOS attack by the group.
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