Biggest cyberattack in Latvia launched by pro-Kremlin hackers

The Baltic country has come under the most intense massive wave of hacker attacks in its history, including a 12-hour onslaught on its public broadcasting center.

Latvia appears to have been targeted by pro-Kremlin hackers because of a series of assertive steps such as bringing back conscription and drawing up a list of Soviet monuments for demolition.

The digital offensive has been co-ordinated by Killnet, a network of hacktivists who have thrown in their lot with Russia and declared “war” on ten western states that support Ukraine, including the US and Britain.

The group has previously claimed to have carried out assaults on half a dozen European countries, including Italy, Lithuania and Norway.

Killnet’s weapon of choice is the relatively blunt “distributed denial of service” attack, where large numbers of computers are used in an effort to overwhelm websites with traffic.

It is thought partly to be a response to a law requiring the destruction of up to 300 Soviet war memorials, including the enormous Victory Monument in Riga, which has been a symbolic rallying point for the country’s ethnic Russians.

One way or another, today the Baltic state is under a massive attack of pro-Kremlin hackers.

By the way, however, few months ago, Killnet hackers announced global cyberattacks against a number of countries - including the UK - for standing up to Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.