DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

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?

Would the attack be successful is the Norwegian government used a way to protect itself against ddos like cloudflare or akamai?

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

The bus card ride purchase system was down today in my part of Finland. I wonder if it is related.

Bets on which AI lab it is this time?

Many important services with problems. Ouch. My guess is that the root cause is misconfiguration rather than an attack.

The Internet was supposed to withstand a nuclear attack

putler?