From the hacking attack on Estonia in 2007 to the fake news targeting the NATO battalions on the alliance’s eastern border in 2017 — the Baltics have been the bull’s-eye of of Russian-backed digital warfare.
Ten years ago, Estonians awoke to find the country paralyzed by a mass cyberattack and in the grip of street riots, with Russian protesters traveling across the border to participate against “Nazism” and “blasphemy.” The Estonian goverment’s decision to relocate a memorial to Soviet soldiers in the capital Tallinn had sparked the biggest crisis since the country’s independence.
