A recent report by the EU’s agency for cybersecurity found the volume of DDoS rose sharply in the bloc, with hacktivists primarily attacking public administration
Nokia is to partner Cinia, a Finnish provider of critical connectivity and cybersecurity services, to protect the country’s critical infrastructure against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attacks. Infrastructure run by Cinia includes international submarine cables.
Hacktivists using DDoS to attack EU public admin
ENISA is the European Union agency for cybersecurity. The 2025 ENISA Threat Landscape, published last October, found that DDoS attacks was the dominant incident type, accounting for 77% of reported incidents. Most (80%) were the work of hacktivists – motivated by social or political aims – with cybercriminals representing a minor portion.
Most of the hacktivist attacks were low-impact DDoS campaigns targeting EU Member States organisations’ websites, only 2% of which disrupted services. Public administration was the most targeted sector (38.2%), by a huge margin, in the period covered by the report due to the increased number of hacktivists’ DDoS attacks.
The report noted that public administration was “the focus of hacktivism and state-nexus intrusion sets conducting cyberespionage campaigns on diplomatic and governmental entities”.
By comparison, in this report the next most highly targeted sectors were transport in second place (7.5%), followed by digital infrastructure and services (4.8%), finance (4.5%) and manufacturing (2.9%).
Cinia and Nokia collaborate
This collaboration between Cinia and Nokia will operate a new managed security service provider model through which Cinia will offer customers a managed 24/7 DDoS protection service based on network-embedded detection and mitigation capabilities developed by Nokia in its Deepfield Defender.
The parties will jointly development of the solution to “provide customers with comprehensive, up-to-date defense against the latest generation of DDoS threats, ensuring business continuity and service uptime”.
Deepfield is to provide Cinia with detailed visibility into its network infrastructure through correlation and analysis of IP network and flow telemetry. The network-wide insight is correlated with a broader internet context obtained through Deepfield Genome. Better visibility is intended to allow faster identification of anomalies and more informed capacity-planning decisions.
Jukka-Pekka Lithovius, Development Director at Cinia, noted, “Our cooperation with Nokia enables us to offer the most advanced DDoS protection capabilities on the market to our customers. By leveraging Cinia’s Network Operation Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC) services and experience in 24/7 monitoring of critical environments, together with Nokia’s cutting-edge technologies, we ensure that our customers’ networks and internet-facing services remain secure and reliable even as the threat landscape evolves.”
