{"id":243187,"date":"2026-08-26T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/massive-ddos-attack-disrupts-norways-government-digital-services"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:16:13","slug":"massive-ddos-attack-disrupts-norways-government-digital-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/massive-ddos-attack-disrupts-norways-government-digital-services","title":{"rendered":"Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway\u2019s government digital services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-ddos-attack-disrupts-norways-government-digital-services.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has disrupted Norway\u2019s shared government digital infrastructure since Monday, affecting services used by the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>The attack started at 03.38 CEST on Monday and has targeted the infrastructure supporting services operated by the Norwegian Digitalization Agency, Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), and its operations provider, Vivicta.<\/p>\n<p>Digdir operates Norway\u2019s shared digital government infrastructure, including public-service logins, electronic IDs and signatures, secure digital mail, government forms, public-record access, and data exchange between agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has disrupted Norway\u2019s shared government digital infrastructure since Monday, affecting services used by the public sector. The attack started at 03.38 CEST on Monday and has targeted the infrastructure supporting services operated by the Norwegian Digitalization Agency, Digitaliseringsdirektoratet (Digdir), and its operations provider, Vivicta. Digdir operates Norway\u2019s shared digital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}