European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its web site goes down

Enlarge / An iteration of what occurs when your web site will get shut down by a DDoS assault.

The European Parliament web site was knocked offline for a number of hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault that began shortly after the governing physique voted to declare the Russian authorities a state sponsor of terrorism.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola confirmed the assault on Wednesday afternoon European time, whereas the location was nonetheless down. “A professional-Kremlin group has claimed duty,” she wrote on Twitter. “Our IT consultants are pushing again in opposition to it & defending our techniques. This, after we proclaimed Russia as a State-sponsor of terrorism.”

Whereas this put up was being reported and written, the web site turned out there once more and appeared to work usually.