Slovakia under attack from hackers

Slovakia's online space has been facing massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by hackers from all over the world in recent days, the National Network and Electronic Services Agency (NASES) reported on Tuesday. A DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. In addition to other Slovak websites, the hackers have attacked the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) website as well as the slovensko.sk state administration website, which are operated by NASES. "On Monday, June 11, between 10:23 a.m. and 10:35 a.m. there was a DDOS attack that was roughly 30 times more massive than last week's one. One of its targets was slovenko.sk, which at that time was unable to provide services to people," said NASES CEO Lukáš Sojka. He added that the attacks were conducted mainly from France, China and the United Kingdom. In response, international access was paused for slovensko.sk, as the attacks were coming from there.