Hackers attacked the European Parliament after voting on recognizing Russia as a sponsor of terrorism

website of the European Parliament It was reportedly down on Wednesday for several hours after “pro-Kremlin” hackers took revenge on Russia, which had been declared a state sponsor of terrorism.

Earlier in the day, Reuters reported, European lawmakers voted in favor of proclaiming Russia state sponsor of terrorism, saying that the country’s use of military strikes against hospitals, schools and energy infrastructure violates international law.

A hacker in a dark sweatshirt sits in front of a laptop with a digital Russian flag and binary streams on the background of the cyber security concept

A hacker in a dark sweatshirt sits in front of a laptop with a digital Russian flag and binary streams on the background of the cyber security concept
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The declaration is mostly symbolic, as the European Union cannot enforce the declaration through a legal framework.

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Following the vote, hackers took down the European Parliament website for several hours using a distributed denial of service attack, Reuters reported. Two hours later, the site was up and running again.

“The European Parliament is under sophisticated cyber attack“- wrote on Twitter the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola. – Responsibility for this was claimed by a pro-Kremlin group. Our IT specialists are resisting this [and] protecting our systems.

“This is after we declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. My answer is #SlavaUkraini,” she added, which means “Glory to Ukraine.”

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A distributed denial of service attack is “a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a target server, service, or network by flooding the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.”

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