Officials attend a plenary session of the BRICS 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia October 23, 2024. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).