Attack on EP website during Russia resol • Table.Briefings

On Wednesday afternoon, the European Parliament’s website was attacked while a debate on Russia’s attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine was still underway. By the evening, the attack was considered to have been averted, but parliamentarians are now discussing whether the EP is sufficiently protected.

The European Parliament’s website was attacked on Wednesday with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In this attack method, the servers are flooded with requests from many different places. At times, the European Parliament’s website was therefore unavailable on Wednesday afternoon, as confirmed by EP President Roberta Metsola. It was not until shortly before 9 p.m. that EP spokesman Jaume Duch gave the all-clear: Everything was under control again, and further developments were being monitored.

Attack on EP website during Russia resolution

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