Cyber security Federal administration affected by hacker attack
Hackers attacked the Federal Administration on Friday. Among other things, telephony, Outlook and various federal websites and specialist applications were affected. No data was leaked, according to the federal government.
10.01.2025, 12:44
SDA
As a result of the attack, the Federal Administration was affected by a disruption to its IT systems for around 45 minutes on Friday morning, the media office of the Federal Office of Information Technology and Telecommunications (FOITT) told the Keystone-SDA news agency on request. The news portal Blick.ch first reported on the incident. Thanks to "countermeasures, the situation was stabilized", the FOITT continued.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks involve overloading websites and applications with targeted requests so that they are no longer accessible. No data would flow out during a DDoS attack. The FOITT and the Federal Office for Cybersecurity (FOCBS) are jointly analyzing the attack and defining the appropriate measures, according to the statement.
The Federal Administration has already been targeted by hackers on several occasions, including during the Ukraine conference at Bürgenstock NW in June 2024, when overload attacks on federal websites were detected. According to Bacs, they came from pro-Russian hackers.
