(CNN)"Intense and continuous"Cyber attackson Lithuanian government and private sector websites Attacked. The Pentagon of the Baltic States said on Monday.
A Russian-speaking hacking group known as Kirnet claimed responsibility for at least part of the hack in retaliation for Lithuania's blocking of the transportation of goods to Kaliningrad's Russian outposts. .. Between Lithuania and Poland.
According to the Department of Defense, some of Monday's cyber attacks aimed at Lithuania's secure data transfer network, a communications network for government officials built to withstand war and other crises. It was a thing.
"Some of the users of the secure national data transfer network did not have access to the service. Work is underway to bring the service back to normal," said the National Cyber Security Center in Lithuania. NKSC) said in a statement issued by the Department of Defense. Ministry.
"It is likely that such or even more violent attacks will continue, especially against the telecommunications, energy and financial sectors," NKSC director Jonas Skardinskas said in a statement. ..
The type of hack in question, known as a distributed denial of service attack, floods a website with fake traffic and takes it offline. This is a common tool preferred by "hacktivists" like Killnet. There is a suspicion of a non-state actor conducting a cyberattack for political purposes.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, a herd of pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia hacking groups has caused confusion in a series of Ukrainian and Russian organizations. For example, a group known as Cyber Partisans in Belarus claims to hack IT systems that support trains that move Russian soldiers near the front lines of Ukraine.
