state-backed cyberattack

Estonia’s government has a longstanding strategy of building up the cyber sector, which is seen as an environment in which Estonia both excels and could provide significant value to other NATO countries. In 2007, Estonia was hit with what may have been the first state-backed cyberattack on another sovereign nation targeting government and private-sector critical infrastructure. That attack helped catalyze support for the creation of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) ufabet