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Attempted hacker attack on Danish parties the day before the election.

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The day before the general election, a notorious pro-Russian hacker group called NoName057(16) attempted to attack the websites of several political parties in Denmark. The day before the election, pro-Russian hackers have turned their attention to Danish parties and authorities. The notorious hacker group NoName057(16) has, according to themselves, carried out overload attacks on radikalevenstre.dk, socialististiskfolkeparti.dk and konservative.dk. The Danish Social Liberal Party confirms to TjekDet that they have been attacked, but that they managed to fend off the attack. The Conservative People’s Party says that they cannot recognize that they have been attacked. The Socialist People’s Party (SF) has not returned a response before the article’s publication. The hacker group NoName057(16) has published the attacks on their channel on the social media Telegram. “We recently visited Denmark and noticed that there were problems with cybersecurity. Let’s see if anything has changed this time”.

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Denmark
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    The day before the general election, a notorious pro-Russian hacker group called NoName057(16) attempted to attack the websites of several political parties in Denmark. The day before the election, pro-Russian hackers have turned their attention to Danish parties and authorities. The notorious hacker group NoName057(16) has, according to themselves, carried out overload attacks on radikalevenstre.dk, socialististiskfolkeparti.dk and konservative.dk. The Danish Social Liberal Party confirms to TjekDet that they have been attacked, but that they managed to fend off the attack. The Conservative People’s Party says that they cannot recognize that they have been attacked. The Socialist People’s Party (SF) has not returned a response before the article’s publication. The hacker group NoName057(16) has published the attacks on their channel on the social media Telegram. “We recently visited Denmark and noticed that there were problems with cybersecurity. Let’s see if anything has changed this time”.