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The Dutch police have received dozens of reports of DDoS attacks from companies in recent weeks, including from companies providing vital services. Extortion emails were also reported to have been sent, but it is not clear that they are linked to each other.
According to the National Cyber Security Center, there are no indications that the threat emails ‘in the name of a state actor’ and the actually carried out DDOS attacks are related. The NCSC does report that there has been an increase in the number of DDOS attacks internationally. Extortion emails were also received in other countries.
According to the NCSC, there has been an increase in the number of ddos attacks and these are exceptionally large attacks, with network traffic peaks of 250Gbit / s. These are udp flood attacks targeting the dns infrastructure. In 2019, the largest ddos attack observed in the Netherlands reached peak traffic of 124Gbit / s. In 2018 this was 68Gbit / s. Earlier this year the Dutch Management Organization for Internet Providers has already concluded that DDoS attacks were getting bigger and bigger.
It is not known who is or is behind the attacks and the NCSC also does not report details about the state hackers who would send the extortion messages. According to the center, the Empire is also under attack.
The Dutch police reports across the country, having received reports from dozens of companies under attack, including vital services companies. According to the police, these include banks and internet providers. The police are calling on companies that are victims to report this. An investigation is currently underway in which the police, National Cyber Security Center, banks, internet providers, NBIP and international police forces are working together.
Among others Online.nl, Tweak, Caiway, Freedom Internet, Epdnet, Signet and Tweakers experienced at the end of August and last week nuisance from large-scale DDoS attacks.
A spokesperson for NBIP told Tweakers last week that the attacker seemed to be well-versed, “The attacks themselves shift every time we get in the middle.” The National Management Organization for Internet Providers offers NaWas, a service to prevent DDOS attacks. to be able to ward off.
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