Staying true to its repute of being identified for relying majorly on DDoS assaults, the pro-Kremlin hacking group Killnet has struck once more and this time, their goal was the European Parliament web site.
This DDoS assault befell after the governing physique voted to declare the Russian authorities a state sponsor of terrorism.
The distributed denial-of-service assault or DDoS assault befell on Wednesday afternoon European time and the web site stayed down for a couple of hours earlier than turning into operational once more.
It’s value noting that the DDoS assault got here simply days after Killnet claimed accountability for concentrating on authorities websites in the UK and vowed to focus on extra within the coming days.
Killnet members rapidly claimed the credit score for the assault shortly after and posted screenshots displaying the European Parliament web site was unavailable in 23 international locations on Telegram. Moreover, the textual content accompanying the pictures included a homophobic comment towards the legislative physique.
“Strap-on shelling of the server a part of the official web site of the European Parliament!” the group posted to its Telegram channel.
The assaults towards the European Parliament got here hours after the company adopted a decision formally figuring out Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. It was adopted by the member states with 494 votes in favor, 58 towards, and 44 abstentions.
Members of the European Parliament “spotlight that the deliberate assaults and atrocities dedicated by Russian forces and their proxies towards civilians in Ukraine, the destruction of civilian infrastructure and different critical violations of worldwide and humanitarian legislation quantity to acts of terror and represent battle crimes,” the declaration said. “In gentle of this, they acknowledge Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and as a state that ‘makes use of technique of terrorism.’”
For the reason that Russo-Ukraine battle started in February, Killnet has launched 76 assaults towards international locations supporting Ukraine.
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