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News outlets in Sweden went dark over the weekend in the face of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) reports here (but English-speakers will need help with the translation) that as well as the attack it suffered, media outlets Expression, Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet, …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    From Russia with love

    Love for "true" propaganda that is.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: From Russia with love

      To the East from Sweden¹: Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Russian Federation, U.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden itself.

      In the absence of further details, interpreting a mere "to the East" as "Russia" seems like a wide bit of extrapolation. Then again, I'm an engineer. :-(

      ¹ Intersecting latitudes.

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  2. Ruairi

    So there was a post about this from sunet about how DDoS has been reported on. It's a good read and can be found here:

    https://www.sunet.se/blogg/showerthoughts-ddosing-an-important-social-institution-and-fixing-it-part1/

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  3. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    "the weekend attackers were more coordinated"

    So they're perfecting their procedures and getting better at being a bloody nuisance.

    Bad news for the rest of us.

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  4. Detective Emil

    My guess is that it's something to do with Swedish publishers plan summer ‘Block Party’ to thwart ad blockers, reported a few days ago in El Reg.

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    1. Bc1609
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      Maybe - though I would have thought that if it were being done for an ideological (as opposed to "national interest") reason, the attackers would be making a big noise about their motivations.

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  5. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Manoeuvre / dress rehearsal?

    After all "Train hard - fight easy." - Field Marshal Alexander V. Suvorov (1729-1800)

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    " the office has contacted (in Swedish) both national and international partners"

    Didn't they have any translators available over the weekend?

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