A service with which municipalities and provinces publish official messages is probably the target of a digital attack on Monday morning. As a result, the pages with documents from, among others, the municipalities of Den Bosch, The Hague and Delft and the provinces of South Holland and Overijssel are more difficult to reach.
Notubiz, the supplier of the service, says: “At the moment we are experiencing nuisance from a large amount of network traffic towards our systems.”
According to a spokeswoman ‘the firewall does its job neatly, the traffic is stopped and people are put in the queue’. The result is that it takes a long time for visitors to load a page. The company does not yet say whether this is a DDOS attack.
Noname05716
The Hague says that several suppliers notice ‘large quantities of network traffic towards their systems’. The municipality speaks of a national image. “As a result, various domains, which the municipality of The Hague also uses, are limited or not accessible at times.”
The disruption is possible the work of the pro-Russian hackers group Noname05716. The group reports the attack via its channel on Telegram. Noname05716 more often performs such attacks on sites in countries that support Ukraine.
NATO top
The Hague is the host city of the annual NATO summit on Tuesday and Wednesday. In the run -up to the top, cyber attacks had already been warned.