Cyber Berkut: NATO Cyberattack Amid Rising Military Tensions

Pro-Russian Ukrainian hackers claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that took down several NATO Web sites amid rising tensions over military incursions into the Crimean peninsula. A hactivist group calling itself Cyber Berkut claimed to have launched attacks Saturday that took down NATO's main page and that of NATO's cyberdefense center. The group also claimed to have taken down the site for NATO's Parliamentary Assembly.

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