Ukraine may have gone on to win the 2022 Eurovision song contest, but it wasn’t without some resistance from pro-Russian hackers, who targeted the Eurovision Song Contest on two out of three nights.
The attacks were attributed to pro-Russian threat group Killnet, given that they implied that they would launch a DDoS attack against the online voting system. Thankfully, the host country, Italy, had allocated sufficient resources to counteract the cyber-attacks and was able to prevent them from impacting the competition.
Killnet has since announced that they did not launch the attacks that were stopped by the Italian authorities. However, they said that they would declare war on 10 countries (US, the UK, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine) for their support of Ukraine.