France’s La Poste Hit by Second NoName057(16) DDoS in One Week

The tactic echoes the 2007 DDoS siege on Estonia’s government sites—then linked to Kremlin-aligned actors—and the 2015–17 waves against Ukraine’s grid, marking a two-decade trend: Moscow-friendly hackers using cheap volume attacks to signal displeasure without triggering NATO’s Article 5. In an era where a postal service—once a 19th-century symbol of industrial reliability—depends on cloud front-ends, each outage exposes the brittleness of critical civilian infrastructure that has digitised faster than it has hardened. Whether these incidents remain nuisance-level or escalate into data-wiping or supply-chain compromises will shape Europe’s cyber-defence doctrine far more than any single parcel delay; in a century where logistics and finance are increasingly software, the frontline is a login page.