"Serbian Government Reports 'Massive DDoS Attack' Amid Heightened Tensions in Balkans"
Multiple major Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have been launched against the website and Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to an announcement by the Serbian government. Belgrade said that government officials and employees from state-owned Telekom Srbija (Telecom Serbia) were able to repel the five massive attacks aimed at disrupting the IT infrastructure of the Ministry of Interior. The DDoS attacks coincide with a wave of similar occurrences attributed to Russian-supporting groups in relation to the invasion of Ukraine, although no group has claimed responsibility for the attempts to take the Serbian website and services offline. This article continues to discuss the DDoS attacks faced by the website and IT infrastructure of Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs and the possible motives behind these attacks.