COPENHAGEN, Nov 13, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Danish government and defence websites 
were hit in a wide-ranging cyberattack on Thursday, the country's Civil 
Protection Agency said, with pro-Russia hackers claiming responsibility.

The agency was "aware that several Danish companies and websites were 
currently experiencing outages and operating disruptions because of DDoS 
attacks", it said in a statement provided to AFP.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks halt access to a website by 
overloading its servers with traffic.

The agency said it was "following the situation closely", in tandem with 
Denmark's military intelligence agency.

A pro-Russian hacker group called NoName057 said on social media it had 
attacked Danish sites including the Ministry of Transport and the public 
sector portal Borger.dk, as well as the defence group Terma, which confirmed 
it had been attacked.

"We're aware that a Russian hacker group has claimed that it (would) disrupt 
our website as well as the ones of several Danish authorities but it's too 
early to say they are responsible," Terma spokesman Tobias Brun-Falkencrone 
told AFP.

"We are well geared to handle this kind of cyberattack and acted quickly. 
There were no security breaches and no data was lost."

On Wednesday, the same hacker group said it had hit several Danish 
municipalities less than a week before local elections in the Scandinavian 
country -- which is one of Ukraine's most ardent supporters.