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Beginning on 27 April 2007, a series of cyberattacks targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
English: This photograph was taken by Bill Woodcock in order to "vet" Hillar Aarelaid, then director of the Estonian Computer Emergency Response Team, to the NSP-Sec cybersecurity coordination community, at the outset of the Russian cyber-attack on Estonia in 2007.
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, in office from 2006-16, told AP that some nations don't act because they hope to do business with Russia again. “People are afraid of decisive action, and the absence of decisive action basically tempts bad actors to keep pushing their luck," added Ilves, who dealt with a major cyber attack ...
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia is considered to be an information operation against Estonia, with the intent to influence the decisions and actions of the Estonian government. While Russia denies any direct involvement in the attacks, hostile rhetoric from the political elite via the media influenced people to attack. [5]
Political relations between Russia and Estonia, a country of 1.3 million that is a member of the European Union and NATO, have remained icy since 1991, when the small Baltic nation regained its ...
Estonia’s prime minister has been put on a wanted list in Russia because of her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in the Baltic nation, officials said Tuesday as tensions ...
Estonia summoned Russia’s charges d’affaires to the country as well. Estonia, a former part of the Soviet Union, joined the European Union and acceded to NATO in 2004.