Conflicts

Already for the fourth day in a row, the pro-Russian hacker collective NoName057 has carried out cyber attacks on Belgian websites. 

On Thursday, the website of Febelfin - the federation of the Belgian banking sector - and a website of the FPS Economy, as well as the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) were hit. Several websites were affected and not accessible.

Thursday morning at around 9:08 a.m., the cybercriminals posted a message on Telegram claiming the attack on the Belgian websites of Febelfin and a copyright declaration portal of the FPS Economy. Once again, these are so-called DDoS attacks. The CCB, which incidentally was itself attacked on Thursday, stresses that the attacks are not dangerous.

'Revenge on Center for Cybersecurity'
So the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium was also targeted by such attacks on Thursday. On Telegram, the hackers write “revenge” for the “false claims” allegedly made by the center in recent days. “In almost every article about our massive cyber attack on Belgium, we read references to the false statements of the Center for Cyber Security Belgium, which cackles about the 'harmlessness' of our attacks,” NoName057 writes. “Today we decided to clearly demonstrate how bad cyber defense is in Belgium.”

The pro-Russian hacker collective additionally claims that Belgian authorities and the CCB are silent “about the consequences of our attack that crippled a terminal at a Belgian port.”

(SR for Tagtik/Source: Nieuwsblad - VRT NWS - Belga/Illustration picture: Pixabay)