DDoS attacks
After ÖVP and SPÖ: KPÖ also the target of a cyber attack
Following the ÖVP and SPÖ early Monday evening, the KPÖ was also the target of a cyber attack on Tuesday. In so-called DDoS attacks, the aim was to overload the network, which leads to corresponding outages. This was also the case for the small party, whose website is currently (as of 2.20 pm) unavailable.
No other systems were compromised, the party told APA. "We are working flat out to make our homepage accessible again. In the final spurt of an election campaign, this is of course unpleasant", said KPÖ top candidate Tobias Schweiger.
The ÖVP and SPÖ were victims of a hacker attack on Monday - krone.at reported. According to reports, it was also a so-called DDoS attack.
Attacks just a dress rehearsal?
The DDoS attacks - distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks - against the ÖVP and SPÖ were all carried out at around the same time (around 5 p.m.) and probably not coincidentally shortly before the national elections on Sunday.
Were these attacks perhaps just test attacks for a much larger attack on Sunday?
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