Belgian News Agency reports:
A DDoS cyberattack briefly disrupted the websites of Belgian telecom operators Proximus and Scarlet on Wednesday morning. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the attack via Telegram. Ghent University Hospital was also hit by a DDoS attack around the same time.
Proximus spokesperson Fabrice Gansbeke confirmed that technicians detected unusual traffic around 7:20 and took immediate countermeasures. “From 7:30, we saw a sharp increase in traffic. The impact was very limited: our systems held up,” he said.
In a DDoS, or distributed denial of dervice, attack, hackers flood a website with massive amounts of traffic, overwhelming its servers and making it temporarily inaccessible. Such attacks do not compromise user data.
At 8:53, NoName057 posted a message on Telegram boasting of attacks against the websites of Scarlet and Proximus and an internal Telenet portal. However, Telenet spokesperson Stefan Coenjaerts denied the claim. “Our systems were not hacked and no websites went offline,” he said.
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