DDoS Attack Disrupts Norwegian Government Login Services
DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been targeting Norway's ID-porten, a central login system for public services, since early Monday, August 3. The attack, which also affects related services like MinID, Maskinporten, and Altinn, has caused intermittent outages and login difficulties for users. Digdir, the agency responsible, is working with its operations partner Vivicta to mitigate the attack. Traffic began recovering around 13:40, but full restoration may take time.
Since 01:00 Monday, August 3, a denial-of-service attack (DDoS) has been ongoing, affecting ID-porten, which is operated by Digdir's operations partner Vivicta.
- just_some_user
The actual interesting part about such an attack is not that something is down, but rather why someone would run it.
A lot of DDoS originates from script kiddies, but such attacks are usually very short lived as attacks are expensive.
So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?
- lschueller
I'd guess someone in the us fat-fingered ip ranges and mixed up 2.144.0.0/14 (Iran) with 2.148.0.0/14 (Norway)
- speerer
There's some interesting commentry at https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id... , which suggests that the widespread outage is due to a single point of failure:
> ID-Porten: When One Gateway Controls Everything
> At the center of the disruption is ID-porten — the national login gateway operated by Norway's Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), the government agency responsible for public-sector digitalization. ID-porten functions as the single sign-on portal through which Norwegian citizens authenticate themselves to access public digital services.
It seems to be a corporate service provider that's a dependency for many other services.
- p0w3n3d
There has been also DDoS against my friend's employer ISP. He had to work a lot to mitigate. There was a random request before
- leke
The bus card ride purchase system was down today in my part of Finland. I wonder if it is related.