Category: Estonia

Estonia has made it official that it has faced the biggest cyber attack in the country’s history for removing Soviet World War 3 monuments that were dedicated to war veterans. Lukas Ilves, the Chief of Digital Transformation, confirmed the news and added that the digital assault was minor and did not result in serious disruption.

Going deep into the details, the said country, which is in Northern Europe, has experienced a huge Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, aimed to cripple websites of public and private entities, like the one launched on the Online Citizen Identification System.

As Estonia is a NATO affiliated nation and is against the war of Russia with Ukraine, Putin backed Killnet hacking group is suspected to be behind the incident.

The reason for such a serious assault is simple. Just because Estonia removed a Soviet Tu-34 tank from the display at Narva to a museum, the cyber attack was launched…..couldn’t it be solved with some words of talk?

Lithuania and Estonia are two new nations that intended to join NATO as soon as the Russian war with Kyiv started in February this year. As both the nations are supporting Ukraine by supplying essential commodities to innocent civilians, Putin has tagged both the nations as adversaries to Russian Federation from April this year.

NOTE- The war between Ukraine and Russia is soon going to end as the latter has faced extreme criticism from its populace, from the entire world and now its own military personnel. It is facing an extreme scarcity of arms and ammunition on the battlefield and so should solve the issue through a fresh dialogue.

 

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A ransomware attack launched on American companies was probed deeply and led to the arrest of a man from Estonia. The man was arrested with full evidence and so he was sentenced to a 5-year jail term or for 66 calendar months by the US Department of Justice.

Maksim Berezan is the 37-year-old man found guilty of the ransomware attack launched by Russian criminals on American businesses between April 2019-2020 and reportedly led to a $53 million loss.

Berezan was arrested in November 2020 from Latvia and extradited to the USA in April 2021 for indulging in cybercrime such as wire frauds on banks, assisting ransomware criminals from Russia to buy and sell software tools & services, and stealing money from cryptocurrency exchanges.

The probe was halted for some time because of the COVID-19 pandemic and, in the meantime; the cops investigated the computers operated by the Estonians to find $11 million accumulated from ransom payments.

Some portion of the currency was spent by Maksim to buy two red and black porches, a Ducati Motorbike, and some jewelry, and the same portion was found to be transferred to his Bitcoins wallet.

The Eastern District of Virginia has asked the culprit to pay $36 million as compensation to victims for the incurred losses along with the sentenced jail term.

Note- The news was released by the law enforcement agencies of the United States to enlighten the minds of the cyber crooks that all their digital fraud indulgence will end up for prosecution one day. And the department of justice thanked the Latvian State Police and Estonian Police to help nab the criminal and extradite him to North America.

 

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