Should there be a link? The European Parliament is this Wednesday the target of a computer attack, a few hours after having voted on a text on Russia, qualifying it as a “State promoter of terrorism” in the war in Ukraine and calling on the 27 countries of the European Union to do the same.
At 4 p.m., the European Parliament site was indeed experiencing connection difficulties, as Le Parisien saw. Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet – behind several other similar attacks in recent months – claimed responsibility, saying they launched a DDOS attack (by multiplying traffic to the site to make it inaccessible)without this destabilizing the functioning of the European Parliament from within.
“Availability of the (European Parliament) website is currently affected due to high levels of traffic on the external network,” Jaume Duch, a spokesperson for the European Parliament, acknowledged on Twitter, confirming an ongoing DDOS attack. “European Parliament teams are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible,” he added.
Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated appeals to the international community for President Vladimir Putin’s regime to be declared a “terrorist regime”, the European Parliament had above all taken a mostly symbolic step, in the absence of an adequate legal framework in the EU, unlike the United States.