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Estonia

2 incidents catalogued

Vulnerability exploitResolved

Estonian ID-card ROCA crypto crisis

A flaw in Infineon's RSA key-generation library (ROCA, CVE-2017-15361) made it theoretically possible to forge digital identities for some 750,000 Estonian ID-cards, forcing a nationwide certificate suspension and emergency remote re-keying.

Victim
Republic of Estonia (national ID-card / e-residency)
DDoSResolved

2007 cyberattacks on Estonia

A three-week wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks crippled Estonian government, banking, and media websites amid a dispute with Russia, becoming the first cyber assault on an entire nation-state and the birthplace of NATO's cyber-defence doctrine.

Victim
Republic of Estonia (government, banks, media)