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DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
- p0w3n3d 2mo agoThere has been also DDoS against my friend's employer ISP. He had to work a lot to mitigate. There was a random request before
- deleted 2mo ago[deleted]
- nubg 2mo ago[flagged]
- cyanydeez 2mo agocould just be openai.
- motbus3 2mo agoCould be, but it does not look like any of the ways they done before. Anyone who benefits from instability would be at win, from internal political competition, foreign companies trying to sell flocked up systems and the list could be huge. Not saying it was not who you think it was, Im just saying it does not have enough information yet to be the only explanation or at least the most obvious one.
- coffinbirth 2mo ago[flagged]
- indemnity 2mo agoMaybe you should stop invading other countries if these comparisons hurt your feelings buddy.
- coffinbirth 2mo agoI always find it unbelievable how people do not know or just forget about what happened in the east 85 years ago. Really sad. This is one of the primary reasons why people in the west don't understand why Russia cannot accept Ukraine in NATO. It was NATO that expanded to the east, contrary to the agreements after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia said for decades that Ukraine in NATO is unacceptable.
- anon48293 2mo agoUkraine sought NATO membership AFTER Russia attacked in 2014, not before. Since you’re such a history buff, what did Russia promise when Ukraine got rid of their nukes?
- coffinbirth 2mo ago> Ukraine got rid of their nukes Russia is the official successor state of the Soviet Union, the nukes never belonged to Ukraine in the first place. It was Ukraine that first attacked LPR and DPR in 2014. It was Ukraine that forbid Russian language, culture, church, etc... to Russians living in eastern Ukraine. By the way, Odessa will return to Russia.
- justsomehnguy 2mo ago> NATO Action Plan membership (Georgia and Ukraine) 4 April 2008 Sure, sure a fresh "anon" account.
- CursedSilicon 2mo agoWhispers Hey, hey Did you know Multiple things can in fact, be bad
- coffinbirth 2mo ago[flagged]
- rcxdude 2mo agoThis is a non-sequitur.
- matkoniecz 2mo agoAs someone from Poland I want to confirm that multiple things can be in fact bad. Being invaded by Nazi Germany and days later by their ally, Russia was example of such case.
- justsomehnguy 2mo ago[flagged]
- matkoniecz 2mo agoAt no point I claimed that Poland was land of saints and cuddly plush bears. See also Bereza Kartuska. What you linked does not change at all that being invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union was absolutely awful and both were clearly evil. (and if you want to start oppression olympics, then yes: what Germany and Russia did was far worse than what Poland did, for that matter what Ukrainian OUN UPA did was far worse than what Poland did)
- justsomehnguy 2mo agoIt hurts what you actually was on the same level but got the short end, eh?
- just_some_user 2mo agoThe actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it. A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddies, but such attacks are usually very short lived as attacks are expensive. So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?
- iwontberude 2mo agothose script kiddies control botnets in foreign countries and use them to attack stuff just bc. its not their compute, so no marginal cost to them
- InTheArena 2mo agoWhat do they benefit from taking down any government, NGO or civic work program? American systems, as well as larger European systems are constantly attacked. I've seen the same traffic. Fire walling off China, North Korea and smaller eastern European countries is a must if you ever plan to expose any internet exposed services.
- cynicalsecurity 2mo agoReally, you have no one in mind? Someone who is sending hundreds of bombing drones daily to Ukraine, killing civilian population, women and children, and who is eager to send a message to NATO countries any way possible?
- motbus3 2mo agoThat is much less effective than every other manner they tested on the past few years such as shadow fleets, ghost satellites etc. Up to the moment it has not been the operation adopted which would make it weird. On who would do it then, anyone who benefits from instability. From corporations trying to sell flocked uped sytems, politicians, etc. There is one south american country who was attacked exactly this way before their head of the government was kidnapped.
- cynicalsecurity 2mo ago
- kachnuv_ocasek 2mo agoBets on which AI lab it is this time?
- roschdal 2mo agoThe Internet was supposed to withstand a nuclear attack
- pprotas 2mo agoGuess a nuclear attack would actually lessen the load on the global internet, rather than increase it - like a DDOS would!
- buildbot 2mo ago"The internet" is currently fine, besides Norwegian government services. Also something designed to withstand something does not imply it survives other somethings.
- vee-kay 2mo ago[dead]
- leke 2mo agoThe bus card ride purchase system was down today in my part of Finland. I wonder if it is related.
- e12e 2mo agoIs it run/developed by Tieto (Vivicta)? Ed: I'm guessing yes? https://vayla.fi/-/new-public-transportation-travel-card-system-in-finland-tieto-delivers-the-ticketing-system https://vayla.fi/-/new-public-transportation-travel-card-sys...
- AtNightWeCode 2mo agoMany important services with problems. Ouch. My guess is that the root cause is misconfiguration rather than an attack.
- e12e 2mo agoFrom TFA: > Det har siden kl. 01 mandag 3. august pågått et tjenestenektangrep (DDoS) som rammer ID-porten som driftes hos Digdirs driftspartner Vivicta. > Since 0100 hours Monday August 31st there's been an ongoing DDoS attack which affects the ID-Portal which is run/hosted by DepDig's (Department of digital services') service provider Vivicta. (My translation) Ed: just realized Vivicta is TietoEvery with a haircut and new shoes: https://www.agilitaspe.com/index.php?id=136 https://www.agilitaspe.com/index.php?id=136
- spapas82 2mo agoWould the attack be successful is the Norwegian government used a way to protect itself against ddos like cloudflare or akamai?
- inigyou 2mo agoI certainly hope the Norwegian government doesn't force all of its citizens to transmit all of their private data to the US government.
- speerer 2mo agoThere's some interesting commentry at https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id-porten-outage-mandatory-login-gateway-goes-down-second-time-six-weeks.htm https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id... , which suggests that the widespread outage is due to a single point of failure: > ID-Porten: When One Gateway Controls Everything > At the center of the disruption is ID-porten — the national login gateway operated by Norway's Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), the government agency responsible for public-sector digitalization. ID-porten functions as the single sign-on portal through which Norwegian citizens authenticate themselves to access public digital services. It seems to be a corporate service provider that's a dependency for many other services.
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- e12e 2mo agoYes, it's a single point of failure by design - but has been pretty stable mostly - with this and a previous attack in June being exceptions. The identity portal is administered by the department for digital services, but hosted at a commercial provider, Vivicta (formerly TietoEvery, formerly Tieto and Every - Consulting companies from Finland and Norway). https://www.agilitaspe.com/index.php?id=136 https://www.agilitaspe.com/index.php?id=136
- wasting_time 2mo agoEvry, not Every.
- e12e 2mo agoAutocorrect hates these neologistic company names...
- crest 2mo ago<hat type="tinfoil">I wonder who wants the Norwegian gov infrastructure between a TLS terminating proxy service</hat>
- lschueller 2mo agoI'd guess someone in the us fat-fingered ip ranges and mixed up 2.144.0.0/14 (Iran) with 2.148.0.0/14 (Norway)
- TacticalCoder 2mo agoOr someone entered 2.144.0.0/14 but on a machine without ECC and a bit-flip happened, turning it into 2.148.0.0/14.
- soco 2mo agoOr they tasked a frontier AI with it.
- red-iron-pine 2mo agoand it hallucinated