Cyber attackers strike again

May 05, 2008
In cooperation with BNS

TALLINN- Days before the May 9th Russian Victory Day celebrations, members of the 10th parliament of Estonia were hit with a flurry of cyber attacks from Russia.
Marko Mihkelson, a member of the Estonian Parliament from the Pro Patria and Res Publica faction, said members of the previous Estonian parliament fell victime to the attacks on Sunday.

"E-mail messages with the .ru domain name speak to us about the Bronze Soldier, Victory Day, Estonia's "pro-fascism" and other well-known repertory. A set of e-mail addresses of the members of our 10th parliament is widely circulating in the Russian cyberspace, and so it is not very difficult to launch such an attack," Mihkelson wrote in his blog.

He said that contrary to last year's spam attacks, when the contents of the e-mails were largely the same, Sunday's texts were different although with the same undertone. "The next days until May 9 will show whether we have to do with some kind of a wider action or the effort gradually peters out," Mihkelson said.

Dozens of members of parliament mainly from the Reform Party and the conservative Pro Patria and Res Publica Union received such e-mails during last year's April disturbances and a few months earlier, after the parliament passed an act on prohibited structures.

For ethnic Estonians the monument symbolizes the nearly 50 years of Soviet occupation of Estonia, while many Russian-speakers see it only as a symbol of the Russian role in the liberation of Europe of Nazis in World War II.

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