Many Finnish gov sites and e services are currently down. Including many ministries, police and customs.
Reason currently unknown, all possibilities from tech breakdown to hacking remain open.
#serious
Reason currently unknown, all possibilities from tech breakdown to hacking remain open.
#serious
Valtori (ICT services for the central government) CEO Lehmus says it's distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Started approx 16.30 local time targeting Valtori. Says that currently it's beaten, services are being restored.
yle.fi/uutiset/3-1034…
yle.fi/uutiset/3-1034…
Next ~48hrs will be "interesting" ... was it one-off or are next waves coming.
Tomorrow is a regular workday, subsequent attacks would start causing actual disruptions to everyday life.
Tomorrow is a regular workday, subsequent attacks would start causing actual disruptions to everyday life.
DDoS attack traffic affecting Finnish gov services coming from overseas. As of 19:30 still ongoing. Authorities requested service providers to redirect (likely blackhole) overseas traffic to restore services. hs.fi/kotimaa/art-20…
Note: if foreign traffic to gov sites is blanket blackholed (unknown at this moment), expats and interested parties overseas can not use services or keep an eye on official briefings.
