Swish
May 15, 2025
•[ ddos, service disruption ]
Swedens Swish payment service experienced a DDoS on the evening of May 15, causing widespread payment problems for under an hour before normal operations resumed; no intrusion or data compromise reported.
RTCG portal
May 12, 2025
•[ ddos ]
RTCG reported its news portal was hit by a series of DDoS attacks that made the site unavailable to users for a period during the evening. RTCG technical teams worked to repel the attacks so the portal could return online. The report characterized this as part of a broader pattern of attacks against the public broadcasters online services in recent years. No data theft was reported; the impact described was temporary loss of availability.
Arun District Council
May 6, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism ]
Pro-Russia group NoName057(16) ran a DDoS campaign against multiple UK local government sites; Arun DC confirmed website issues on May 6 that were resolved within hours; other councils reported little/no impact.
Government of Romania
May 5, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism, election interference ]
Russia-aligned hacktivists claimed DDoS attacks on Romanian state and candidate websites on election day, temporarily knocking portals offline before restoration.
Romanian state websites
May 4, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism, government ]
Russia-aligned hacktivist group NoName057(16) claimed DDoS attacks on Romanian state and candidate websites on election day; Romanias DNSC confirmed the incidents and said sites were restored.
Arriva Nederland
May 1, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism ]
Arrivas Dutch website was taken offline in a DDoS attack claimed by Russia-aligned hacktivists, with outages acknowledged locally; services were restored after mitigation.
Corendon
May 1, 2025
•[ ddos ]
Dutch outlet coverage attributed coordinated Russian DDoS attacks against Corendon and Arriva, framed as retaliation for Dutch support to Ukraine; disruptions were temporary.
Dutch public & private organizations
May 1, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism, service disruption ]
Russia-aligned hacktivists launched large-scale DDoS causing service disruptions at Dutch public/private orgs; NCSC acknowledged incidents; no internal compromise reported.
City Administration of Dresden
April 30, 2025
•[ ddos, government, outage ]
On April 30 2025, the City of Dresdens official websites became inaccessible due to a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Officials blocked access to protect municipal IT systems, causing full disruption of online services such as parking ticket applications, petitions, and appointment scheduling. A similar outage occurred the previous weekend. No data theft, ransom demand, or perpetrator identification has been reported.
System Rejestrów Państwowych (Polish State Register System)
April 30, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism ]
On April 30, 2025, Polands System Rejestrw Pastwowych, which supports the national tax and registration systems, was targeted by a hacktivist DDoS campaign that caused temporary outages. Access to e-Declarations, CEPiK, and related government portals was disrupted for about one hour. No data theft or encryption occurred, and services were quickly restored.
System Rejestrów Państwowych (Polish State Register System)
April 30, 2025
•[ DDoS, hacktivism, outage ]
On April 30, 2025, Polands System Rejestrw Pastwowych, which supports the national tax and registration systems, was targeted by a hacktivist DDoS campaign that caused temporary outages. Access to e-Declarations, CEPiK, and related government portals was disrupted for about one hour. No data theft or encryption occurred, and services were quickly restored.
NRC Media B.V. (publisher of NRC Handelsblad)
April 28, 2025
•[ DDoS, hacktivism ]
On April 28, 2025, the Dutch news organization NRC Media suffered a DDoS attack that rendered nrc.nl unreachable for nearly a full day; pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) claimed responsibility, linking the attack to Dutch support for Ukraine.
Multiple Gelderland Municipalities / NotuBiz Customers
April 28, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism, service disruption ]
On April 28 2025, a coordinated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack claimed by the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) targeted the Dutch municipal IT supplier NotuBiz, disrupting connectivity for at least 15 municipal and provincial websites in the province of Gelderland. The attack caused complete but temporary loss of access to public portals for several hours; no data theft or secondary compromise was reported.
Dictation.ru (Total Dictation Project)
April 25, 2025
•[ ddos ]
Dictation.ru, the website for the Russian-language educational project Total Dictation, was targeted by two DDoS attacks on April 25, 2025, reaching 38,000 requests per second. All attacks were mitigated by Solar, and no data theft or service outage occurred.
Adyen NV
April 21, 2025
•[ ddos ]
Dutch payment processor Adyen suffered three distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in April 2025 that disrupted payment services for several hours across Europe; no data theft or system breach reported.
Joannenova.com.au (Jo Nova Blog)
April 19, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism ]
Joannenova.com.au, an independent Australian blog run by science commentator Jo Nova, reported a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack beginning around Easter Saturday (April 19 2025). The site, known for climate-skeptic and political commentary, was flooded by traffic from hundreds of thousands of IPs mainly in China, the USA, Brazil, and Europe, causing intermittent outages for about two weeks. The politically charged nature of the site suggests a hacktivist protest motive.
Democratic Party of Korea
April 13, 2025
•[ ddos ]
The Democratic Party of Korea reported three distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on April 13, 2025, disrupting access to its official website during an internal vote on presidential primary rules; no data loss or operational damage occurred.
Finnish Parliamentary Parties
April 8, 2025
•[ ddos, hacktivism ]
Pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) conducted DDoS attacks against websites of Finnish parliamentary parties, temporarily disrupting access for several hours.
Eezy Plc
April 8, 2025
•[ ddos ]
NoName057(16) conducted a DDoS attack on employment-services provider Eezy Plc, briefly disrupting its website during the coordinated Finnish campaign on April 8 2025.
Finnish polling-place portal (äänestyspaikat.fi)
April 8, 2025
•[ ddos ]
On April 8 2025, NoName057(16) targeted Finlands polling-place website nestyspaikat.fi with a DDoS attack linked to protests over Ukraine policy, briefly disrupting voter-information access.
