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Swiss federal administration under cyberattack: ministry

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Switzerland’s federal administration was under a cyberattack on Monday morning that was blocking access to the websites of several authorities and state-linked companies, the finance ministry said in a statement.

The so-called distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, which makes websites or network resources unavailable by flooding them with malicious traffic, was by the same “NoName” group that carried out a similar attack on the Swiss parliament last week, the ministry said.

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