Finnish foreign affairs and defence ministry websites hit by cyber attacks
The denial of service attacks were announced at just before 1pm on Friday.
Both websites of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs were out of service on Friday. Image: Ruutukaappaus www.defmin.fi
YLE NEWS
8.4. 05:54
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Updated 8.4. 06:16
The websites of Finland's defence and foreign affairs ministries were out of service on Friday, the ministries announced in separate tweets at just before 1pm.
The defence ministry said its website was taken down by a denial of service (DoS) attack and that it was investigating the matter.
The defence ministry's communications chief, Kristian Vakkuri, confirmed that a DoS attack was the cause of problems with its services.
"We are investigating the matter as best we can and will provide more information when we know more," Vakkuri told Yle, but did not speculate on who could be behind the attack.
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