Hackers attacked the federal administration on Friday. Telephony, Outlook as well as various sites and specialized applications of the Confederation were notably affected. No data was leaked, the Confederation affirmed.
Following this attack, the administration’s IT systems were disrupted for around 45 minutes on Friday morning, the press service of the Federal Office of Informatics and Telecommunications (FOIT) told Keystone-ATS. The news portal Blick.ch was the first to report it. Thanks to “countermeasures, the situation was able to be stabilized”, specifies the OFIT.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks consist of overloading websites and applications with targeted requests so that they are no longer accessible. No data leaks during a DDoS attack. The FOITT and the Federal Office for Cybersecurity (OFCS) jointly analyze the attack and define the measures to be taken.
The federal administration has already been targeted by hackers on several occasions, notably during the conference on Ukraine in Bürgenstock (NW) in June 2024. Saturation attacks were then observed on Confederation sites. According to the OFCS, they came from pro-Russian hackers.
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