Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-08-18 00:00:00
Affected organization: Government websites in Estonia
Affected country: Estonia
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Killnet
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Estonia claims to have repelled "the most extensive cyber attacks since 2007", shortly after removing Soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic Russian majority.