Swiss government's hit by cyberattack ahead of Ukraine peace summit

The Swiss government said Thursday that its websites had been hit by a wave of cyberattacks ahead of Switzerland hosting this weekend's summit on peace in Ukraine.

"A first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on various federal government websites and organisations involved in the summit on peace in Ukraine began this morning [...] They resulted in minor outages," the National Cyber Security Centre said.

AFP