Ministry website comes under cyber-attack

The website of the Ministry of Justice is facing disruption from Tuesday evening following a denial of service attack, said the ministry late Tuesday night.

“Our online service http://oikeus.fi is currently experiencing a denial-of-service attack. Due to this, our service is working more slowly than usual and there may be occasional disruptions,” the ministry said in a post in social media platform X.

The ministry, however, did not describe detail about the suspected cyber attack.

Earlier, the websites of several Finnish institutions including parliament, different ministries, Kela and banks faced cyber attacks in the last couple of years.

Russian cyber-attacks against Finland have become more frequent because Russia has been forced to turn to the cyber environment as its human intelligence operations have become more difficult, according to the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency- Traficom and Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo)

The website of the Finnish parliament remained inaccessible in August 2022 following the attack.

A Russian hacker group NoName057(16) on its Telegram channel claimed the responsibility for the attack resulting down the website.