Russian online warfare against Estonia?

In the course of the Russian-Estonian conflict over a Soviet war monument in Tallinn there have been repeated disruptive attacks on official Estonian websites, including the government's homepage. Leading banks like the subsidiary of the Swedish SEB bank, Eesti Uhispank, were also affected. According to Peter Wolodarski, there are indications that this "Internet war" is backed by the Kremlin. "Estonia is even more dependent on the Internet than Sweden. Its citizens can vote online and many official forms are filled out on the Internet. If evidence comes to light that the Russian state has been sabotaging Estonian websites, Moscow must be called to account. From a purely legal point of view it's unclear whether the situation can be compared with an armed attack - not because Internet warfare is harmless, but because international law has not yet been adapted to the realities of the Internet era."

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