Denial-of-service attack knocks out Luxembourg's nationwide telecoms network for over three hours
In 2025, a nationwide telecoms network outage in Luxembourg cut off mobile, fixed-line and emergency communications for more than three hours. A denial-of-service attack exploiting undocumented behaviour in Huawei routers was revealed to be the cause. Crafted traffic caused the routers to reboot repeatedly.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- DDoS
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Nationwide mobile, fixed-line and emergency communications down for more than three hours
- Cause / method
- Denial-of-service attack exploiting undocumented behaviour in Huawei routers, using crafted traffic to trigger repeated reboots
- Location
- Luxembourg
Timeline
- The cause of the 2025 nationwide telecoms network outage in Luxembourg was revealed to be a denial-of-service attack targeting Huawei routers.
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