Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline
A large DDoS attack on Norwegian IT partner Vivicta disrupted 10 government services, including ID-porten used by over 4.5 million users, for 30+ hours.
Norway's Digitalisation Agency (Digdir) said a distributed denial-of-service attack that began Monday targeted the infrastructure of its IT partner Vivicta and lasted around 30 hours at varying intensity, with some services still affected Tuesday. Disrupted services included ID-porten, a national digital identity gateway used by more than 4.5 million people, which many government services and parts of the health sector, such as online pharmacies and the electronic prescription system, rely on for authentication. Digdir said attackers did not gain access to sensitive information, and it was the third DDoS incident since June, reportedly two to three times larger than the previous one. Attribution and possible links between the incidents remain unclear.
- DDoS attack targeted Vivicta infrastructure hosting 10 Norwegian government digital services
- ID-porten login gateway, used by over 4.5 million people, was affected
- Health services relying on ID-porten authentication faced possible pharmacy and e-prescription disruptions
- Third DDoS incident against Digdir services since June, reportedly 2-3x larger than the last
- No indication attackers accessed sensitive information
- Vendors
- Vivicta
- Products
- ID-porten
- Victims
- DigdirNorwegian Government
- Countries
- Norway
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A handful of Norwegian government services have been disrupted for more than a day after a large-scale cyberattack targeted the infrastructure used to operate them, authorities said. The Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, known as Digdir, said the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack began Monday and targeted the infrastructure of its IT partner, Vivicta.
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