The web sites of a number of Swiss federal businesses and state-linked firms had been inaccessible on Monday, June 12, 2023, on account of a cyber-attack, Switzerland’s finance ministry has confirmed.
The Swiss authorities added that “specialists within the federal administration shortly seen the assault” and are “taking measures to revive accessibility to web sites and functions as shortly as attainable.”
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault was claimed by NoName, a pro-Russia risk group specializing in such assaults in opposition to Ukrainian and European organizations.
The group additionally claimed an analogous assault in opposition to the Swiss Parliament on June 7-8.
Switzerland’s federal authorities additionally stated on June 8 that it was investigating a ransomware assault on Xplain, a Swiss software program vendor with ties with a number of authorities businesses, together with the Swiss military, the Federal Workplace of Police (Fedpol) and the nationwide railway firm (FSS).
Xplain beforehand confirmed the assault and stated it believed the preliminary assault happened on June 3 and was carried out by the Play ransomware group, which is believed to be based mostly in Russia.
