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?

It is not expensive, unfortunately :(

Flare + BleepingComputer 2026, Kaspersky, StormWall, and others show that the DDoS-as-a-service market is highly commoditized and prices are extremely low:

A short test / basic attack on a website: $5–25.

Daily attack on a poorly protected target: around $100/day.

A more robust or well-protected target: $200–500 per day.

Monthly subscription to booter/stresser services: often $15–40 (sometimes even less); premium packages cost hundreds of dollars.

Larger or longer-term campaigns or infrastructure: thousands of dollars.

On the governmental level these money are almost nothing if you want to hurt someone else…

DDoS tends to be monetised as DDoS-as-a-service. Taking down "significant" services is good advertising. Either that, or they plan to extort the Norwegian government.

Probably a country that lost to Norway in the World Cup.

is there actually any source those attacks are really done by "script kiddies"?

More likely this more politically motivated and backed up by money and more capable groups

What do they benefit from taking down any government, NGO or civic work program? American systems, as well as larger European systems are constantly attacked. I've seen the same traffic. Fire walling off China, North Korea and smaller eastern European countries is a must if you ever plan to expose any internet exposed services.

> So which actor would actually benefit from downing the Norwegian government?

do we really need to ask?

clearly it's the Danes

Imo russia most likely

It hasn't been majorly like that in twenty years.

Botnets are services now, a business. They gain customers by their effectiveness and resilience.

For $$50-100 you can deny service to a lot of big sites and services.

Really, you have no one in mind? Someone who is sending hundreds of bombing drones daily to Ukraine, killing civilian population, women and children, and who is eager to send a message to NATO countries any way possible?

those script kiddies control botnets in foreign countries and use them to attack stuff just bc. its not their compute, so no marginal cost to them

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The UK. It wants to steal Norway's vast stores of electricity.