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Estonia repels cyberattacks claimed by Russian hackers

Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the attacks [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

Estonia has repelled a wave of cyberattacks, which came shortly after its government opted to remove Soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic Russian majority.

“Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007,” Luukas Ilves, Estonia’s under-secretary for digital transformation at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

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