Several Belgian public authority websites were hit by a cyberattack on Monday morning, said the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB).
This is a DDoS attack, by which the targeted servers are flooded with an astronomical quantity of requests, which ends up paralyzing them, the center clarified, affirming that this attack comes from the hacker collective “NoName057”.
The provinces of Liège, Limburg, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant confirmed to have been among the targets, as well as the city of Antwerp and the House of Representatives, the lower house of the federal parliament. The Hainaut province site is, for its part, unavailable.
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In Belgium, the number of cyberattacks increased in the second quarter of 2024 by 31%, according to the company Check Point Software Technologies, a specialist in the provision of cybersecurity services.
Belgian companies are, each week, targeted by an average of 1,090 cyberattacks. According to Check Point Software Technologies, the health care sector would be the most targeted. There would be an average of 2,783 attacks per week per organization. Government and military institutions would come next with 1,628 attacks per week, followed again by the financial sector, with an average of 1,391 attacks per week.
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