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DDoS Attack on Russia Today News Website

The RT news website has undergone the most powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in its history, the press service of the channel reported Wednesday. “Thanks to the website’s reliable technical protection, RT.com was unavailable just for a few minutes,” the statement reads. According to the channel’s press service, RT.com has been repeatedly subjected to DDoS-attacks. One of the most powerful hacker attacks occurred on February 18, 2013. The website was unavailable for about 6 hours. In 2012 the channel’s English and Spanish websites also came under attack. The attack was claimed by anti-WikiLeaks hacker group AntiLeaks. A DDoS-attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. The RT network’s first channel was launched in December 2005 and now consists of three global news channels broadcasting in English, Spanish and Arabic. RT has 22 bureaus in 19 countries and territories. RT reaches over 644 million people in more than 100 countries. Source: http://en.ria.ru/society/20140918/193035597/Hackers-Attack-RT-News-Website.html

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DDoS Attacks: Why Hosting Providers Need to Take Action

With no shortage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks overwhelming the news headlines, many businesses have been fast to question whether they are well protected by their current DDoS mitigation strategy and are turning to their cloud and hosting providers for answers. Unfortunately, the sheer size and scale of hosting or data center operator network infrastructures and their massive customer base presents an incredibly attractive attack surface due to the multiple entry points and significant aggregate bandwidth that acts as a conduit for a damaging and disruptive DDoS attack. As enterprises increasingly rely on hosted critical infrastructure or services, they are placing themselves at even greater risk from these devastating cyber threats – even as an indirect target. The indirect target: secondhand DDoS The multi-tenant nature of cloud-based data centers can be less than forgiving for unsuspecting tenants. A DDoS attack, volumetric in nature against one tenant, can lead to disastrous repercussions for others; a domino effect of latency issues, service degradation and potentially damaging and long-lasting service outages. The excessive amount of malicious traffic bombarding a single tenant during a volumetric DDoS attack can have adverse effects on other tenants, as well as the overall data center operation. In fact, it is becoming more common that attacks on a single tenant or service can completely choke up the shared infrastructure and bandwidth resources, resulting in the entire data center being taken offline or severely slowed – AKA, secondhand DDoS. A crude defense against DDoS attacks Black-holing or black-hole routing is a common, crude defense against DDoS attacks, which is intended to mitigate secondhand DDoS. With this approach, the cloud or hosting provider blocks all packets destined for a domain by advertising a null route for the IP address(es) under attack. There are a number of problems with utilizing this approach for defending against DDoS attacks: Most notably is the situation where multiple tenants share a public IP address range. In this case, all customers associated with the address range under attack will lose all service, regardless of whether they were a specific target of the attack. In effect, the data center operator has finished the attacker’s job by completely DoS’ing their own customers. Furthermore, injection of null routes is a manual process, which requires human analysts, workflow processes and approvals; increasing the time to respond to the attack, leaving all tenants of the shared data center suffering the consequences for extended periods of time, potentially hours. DDoS attacks becoming increasingly painful The growing dependence on the Internet makes the impact of successful DDoS attacks – financial and otherwise – increasingly painful for service providers, enterprises, and government agencies. And newer, more powerful DDoS tools promise to unleash even more destructive attacks in the months and years to come. Enterprises that rely on hosted infrastructure or services need to start asking the tough questions of their hosting or data center providers, as to how they will be properly protected when a DDoS attack strikes. As we’ve seen on numerous occasions, hosted customers are simply relying on their provider to ‘take care of the attacks’ when they occur, without fully understanding the ramifications of turning a blind eye to this type of malicious behavior. Here are three key steps for providers to consider to better protect their own infrastructure, and that of their customers: Eliminate the delays incurred between the time traditional monitoring devices detect a threat, generate an alert and an operator is able to respond; reducing initial attack impact from hours to seconds by deploying appliances that both monitor and mitigate DDoS threats automatically. Your mitigation solution should allow for real-time reporting alert and event integration with back-end OSS infrastructure for fast reaction times and the clear visibility needed to understand the threat condition and proactively improve DDoS defenses. Deploy your DDoS mitigation inline. If you have out-of-band devices in place to scrub traffic, deploy inline threat detection equipment quickly that can inspect, analyze and respond to DDoS threats in real-time. Invest in a DDoS mitigation solution that is architected to never drop good traffic. Providers should avoid the risk of allowing the security equipment to become a bottleneck in delivering hosted services and always allowing legitimate traffic to pass un-interrupted, a “do no harm” approach to successful DDoS defense. Enterprises rely on their providers to ensure availability and ultimately protection against DDoS attacks and cyber threats. With a comprehensive first line of defense against DDoS attacks deployed, you are protecting your customers from damaging volumetric threats directed at or originating from or within your networks. Source: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/09/17/ddos-attacks-hosting-providers-need-take-action/

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Silk Road 2.0 Hit by ‘Sophisticated’ DDoS Attack

Online black market Silk Road 2.0 experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, which forced the site’s administrators to temporarily suspend services. News of the attack broke on bitcoin forums hours after it started, with the Silk Road team soon confirming the news via its own forums. For reasons that are less clear, black market Agora has faced outage issues problems of its own in the last few days. Silk Road remains defiant Silk Road 2.0 moderator ‘Defcon’ issued a statement saying that the site was facing a “very sophisticated” DDoS attack using the most advanced methods the site has experienced to date. The moderator said: “The dev team is working around the clock to get marketplace service restored, as well as watch the security of our systems closely. Much of the downtime you have seen is intentional on our part: if this is an attempt to locate our servers through packet analysis, we do not want to make it easy for our adversary and would rather be offline while we adapt our defences.” As the attack continued, Silk Road 2.0 remained offline. Defcon eventually issued a second update, indicating that the team is trying out different approaches to blocking the inbound DDoS. He stressed that the site is still processing withdrawals, although these have been delayed by the attacks. Silk Road 2.0 is aware that cashflow is very important and the site is therefore prioritising delayed withdrawals, the moderator added. Defcon ended the update on a defiant note: “To our adversaries: you cannot stop us. We will overcome every attack.” Questions persist Silk Road 2.0 vendors started reporting problems earlier last week, before the site was finally forced to shut down. Despite official updates, the outage prompted a number vendors to raise questions about the impact of the attack. Silk Road 2.0 was targeted by hackers in the past: last February, the site lost 4,476 BTC to an alleged hack, worth over $2.6m at the time. The attack was blamed on a transaction malleability exploit used by one of the vendors. The site decided to compensate affected customers and, by late May, it said more than 80% of bitcoins stolen in the alleged heist have been repaid to the victims. The source and goal of the latest attack remains unclear. Speculation is mounting that the attack was in fact launched by law enforcement in an attempt to ascertain the location of Silk Road 2.0 servers, while other users believe the attack was launched by criminals or competitors. Following the February hack, Silk Road 2.0 said it would introduce a multi-signature wallet system to replace its previous escrow platform. A multisig system should be less vulnerable to hackers, but has not been fully implemented yet. Online black market Agora faces outage Silk Road 2.0 is not the only black market suffering outage issues. While Silk Road 2.0 was struggling to restore services, which it eventually did late on Friday, competing market Agora went offline. Agora users started reporting intermittent problems on Saturday. The site was out of action over  much of the weekend and had still not become available by press time  (12:15 BST, Monday). The reason for the outage remains unclear. Earlier this month, Agora confirmed that it was suffering from availability issues on a regular basis. However, the team offered an extensive explanation into the inner workings of the market and the need for security, saying it considers that more important than around-the-clock availability. The Agora team said at the time: “Our primary goal is to stay hidden from law enforcement agencies and secure from hackers. We implement much more security measures than many others, which causes problems with availability.”   Source: http://www.coindesk.com/silk-road-2-0-shrugs-sophisticated-ddos-attack/

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How Boston Children’s Hospital Hit Back at Anonymous

Hackers purportedly representing Anonymous hit Boston Children’s Hospital with phishing and DDoS attacks this spring. The hospital fought back with vigilance, internal transparency and some old-fashioned sneakernet. That – and a little bit of luck – kept patient data safe. On March 20, Dr. Daniel J. Nigrin, senior vice president for information services and CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital, got word that his organization faced an imminent threat from Anonymous in response to the hospital’s diagnosis and treatment of a 15-year-old girl removed from her parent’s care by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The hospital’s incident response team quickly convened. It prepared for the worst: “Going dark” – or going completely offline for as long as the threat remained. Luckily, it never came to that. Attacks did occur, commencing in early April and culminating on Easter weekend – also the weekend of Patriot’s Day, a Massachusetts holiday and the approximate one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings – but slowed to a trickle after, of all things, after a front-page story about the incident ran in The Boston Globe . No patient data was compromised over the course of the attacks, Nigrin says, thanks in large part to the vigilance of Boston Children’s (and, when necessary, third-party security firms). The organization did learn a few key lessons from the incident, and Nigrin shared them at the recent HIMSS Media Privacy and Security Forum. As Anonymous Hit, Boston Children’s Hit Back As noted, the hospital incident response team – not just the IT department’s – planned for the worst. Despite that fact that the information Anonymous claimed to have, such as staff phone numbers and home addresses, is the stuff of “script kiddies,” Nigrin says Children’s took the threat seriously. Attacks commenced about three weeks after the initial March 20 warning. Initially, the hospital could handle the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on its own. Anonymous changed tactics. Children’s responded. The hackers punched. The hospital counterpunched. As the weekend neared, though, DDoS traffic hit 27 Gbps – 40 times Children’s typical traffic – and the hospital had to turn to a third-party for help. The attacks hit Children’s external websites and networks. (Hackers also pledged to hit anyone linked to Children’s – including the energy provider NStar, which played no role in the child custody case at all but sponsors Children’s annual walkathon.) In response, Nigrin took down all websites and shut down email, telling staff in person that email had been compromised. Staff communicated using a secure text messaging application the hospital had recently deployed. Internal systems were OK, he says, so Children’s electronic health record (EHR) system, and therefore its capability to access patient data, wasn’t impacted. In contrast to this internal transparency, Children’s, at the urging of federal investigators, didn’t communicate anything externally. Nonetheless, word got to The Boston Globe , which ran its front-page story on April 23. Nigrin, again, prepared for the worst. He didn’t have to. After the article came out, the Twitter account @YourAnonNews took notice, urging hackers to stop targeting a children’s hospital. Attacks continued, but at a much smaller clip. 6 Quick Tips for Beating Back Hackers In reflecting on the Anonymous attack, Nigrin offers the following security lessons that Boston Children’s learned. DDoS countermeasures are crucial. “We’re not above these kinds of attacks,” Nigrin says. Know which systems depend on external Internet access. As noted, the EHR system was spared, but the e-prescribing system wasn’t. Get an alternative to email. In addition to secure testing, Children’s used Voice over IP communications. In the heat of the moment, make no excuses when pushing security initiatives. Children’s had to shut down email, e-prescribing and external-facing websites quickly. “Don’t wait until it’s a fire drill,” Nigrin says. Secure your teleconferences. Send your conference passcode securely, not in the body of your calendar invite. Otherwise, the call can be recorded and posted on the Internet before you even hang up, he says. Separate signals from noise. Amid the Anonymous attack, several staff members reported strange phone calls from a number listed as 000-000-0000. At the time, it was hard to tell if this was related, and it made the whole incident that much harder to manage. Above all, Nigrin says healthcare organizations need to pay attention to the growing number of security threats the industry faces. “There are far more than we have seen in the past,” he says. Source: http://www.cio.com/article/2682872/healthcare/how-boston-childrens-hospital-hit-back-at-anonymous.html

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5 most targeted industries for DDoS attacks

1. Gaming Gaming is the most-targeted industry, according to the report, accounting for more than 45% of total attacks. The industry, which includes any company related to online gaming or gaming-related content, is prone to attacks by motivated players seeking to gain a competitive advantage or by malicious actors seeking to steal personal data from players. The industry received a large percentage of infrastructure layer attacks and a fair percentage of application-layer attacks in Q2, including 46% of all NYN floods and 68% of GET floods. 2. Software and technology The software and technology industry, which includes companies that provide solutions such as SaaS and cloud-based technologies, was hit with the second-greatest number of attacks (22%), and was the most-frequently targeted with infrastructure-layer attacks. The report reveals that the most popular attack vectors against the software and technology industry were DNS and NTP reflection and amplification attacks, accounting for 33% and 26% respectively. SYN floods made up approximately 22% of attacks, and UDP floods accounted for 27%. 3. Media and entertainment The report reveals that the media and entertainment industry accounted for a smaller percentage of all attacks, at 15% in Q2. This marks a 39% decrease from last quarter. Despite this shift, the media and entertainment industry remains one of the most targeted industries for hackers. These attacks often offer higher visibility for malicious actors, with press coverage that helps campaign organizers reach out to supporters and recruit new participants. The media and entertainment industry was hit by mostly infrastructure attacks, including SYN floods (18%), UDP floods (25%) and UDP fragments (22%). 4. Financial services Major financial institutions, such as banks and trading platforms, were targeted in 10% of all attacks in Q2, according to the Prolexic report. Historically, financial institutions have been the target of many DDoS attacks, including those orchestrated by the group Izz ad-Din al Qassam Cyber Fighters (QCF), using the Brobot botnet. The report discloses that recent activity indicates a possible resurgence of the use of the Brobot botnet, but the financial sector did not experience many major attack campaigns this quarter. 5. Internet and telecom Including companies that offer internet-related services such as ISPs and CNDs, the internet and telecom industry was the fifth most-targeted industry in Q2, accounting for 4% of all attacks. Infrastructure-layer attack vectors were the most common, with 10% of all attacks as UPD floods, and 9% as UPD fragments. Internet and telecom was the target of 12% of all NTP flood attacks this quarter. Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2014/09/12/5-most-targeted-industries-for-ddos-attacks?t=tech-management&page=6

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Report on China’s underground services for DDoS Attacks

After analyzing trends in the Chinese underground, Trend Micro found that activity in the marketplace doubled between 2012 and 2013. Upon an even closer look, researchers at the firm also found that the most coveted tools and services in the underground were compromised hosts, remote access trojans (RATs) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack services. Trend Micro’s new research paper, “The Chinese Underground in 2013,”(PDF) detailed criminal activity facilitated in the space, and in a Thursday interview with SCMagazine.com, Christopher Budd, global threat communication manager at the company, said that, among the products, compromised hosts were most sought after. In the report, Trend Micro defined “compromised hosts” as client workstations or servers that cybercriminals “have gained command and control of” without the owners’ consent. “That makes sense, because the compromised host is a multi-tasker,” Budd said. “It’s kind of a like a Swiss army knife – you can do multiple things with it.” The report also highlighted the going rate last year for popular black market services. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) offerings, for instance, were offered for anywhere from $16 per day to nearly $500 for a “lifetime” DDoS toolkit rental, the report revealed. Researchers also monitored underground activity centered around mobile attacks. Trend Micro found that the most in demand offerings were SMS spamming services, SMS servers and premium service numbers. Overall, the report noted that the increased activity in the China’s underground took into account, both the number of participants and the number of product and services offerings in 2013. In his interview, Rudd also noted that attacks, facilitated through shady transactions in China’s underground market, were most often aimed at other users in the country – an ongoing trend that will likely continue. “The participants in the Chinese underground looking inward, and the Russian underground looking outward [in attacks], has been a consistent trend,” Budd said. “And partly, that’s linguistic, because the people in the Chinese underground market [products and services] in Chinese as opposed to English – [but] it’s a combination of cultural and linguistic factors,” he said. Source: http://www.scmagazine.com/report-chinas-underground-activity-doubled-last-year/article/369849/

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Anti-Piracy Outfit Denies launching DDoS attacks on Anime Sites

The effects of a DDoS attack that crippled NYAA, one of the largest anime torrent sites, continue today with fingers being pointed at everyone from the Japanese government to an anti-piracy group working with anime distributors. Subtitling site HorribleSubs, which was also affected, has its own ideas. Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks are a relatively common occurrence in the file-sharing community and something that many sites are subjected to throughout the course of a year. They disrupt service and can often cost money to mitigate. Those carrying out the attacks have a variety of motives, from extortion and blackmail to “the lulz“, and a dozen reasons in between. Often the reasons are never discovered. During the past few days several sites involved in the unauthorized sharing of anime have been targeted by DDoS-style attacks. Swaps24 reported that Haruhichan, Tokyo Toshokan and AnimeTake were under assault from assailants unknown, although all now appear to be back online. A far more serious situation has played out at NYAA.se, however. The site is probably the largest public dedicated anime torrent index around and after being hit with an attack last weekend it remains offline today. The attack on NYAA had wider effects too. NYAA and leading fan-subbing site HorribleSubs reportedly shared the same hosting infrastructure so the DDoS attack took down both sites. That’s significant, not least since at the end of August HorribleSubs reported that their titles had been downloaded half a billion times. As the image above shows it now appears that HorribleSubs has recovered (and added torrent magnet links) but the same cannot be said about NYAA. The site’s extended downtime continues with no apparent end in sight. This has resulted in a backlash from the site’s fans and somewhat inevitably accusatory fingers are being pointed at potential DDoS suspects. As far-fetched as it might sound, one of the early suspects was the Japanese government itself. The launch of a brand new anti-piracy campaign last month in partnership with 15 producers certainly provided a motive, but a nation carrying out this kind of assault seems unlikely in the extreme. Quickly, however, an announcement from HorribleSubs turned attentions elsewhere. “Chill down. It’s not just us. Every famous anime sites [are] getting DDoS attacks, but that doesn’t mean this is the end,” the site’s operator wrote on Facebook. “We have located where DDoS are coming from. It’s from ?#?Crunchyroll? and ?#?Funimation? Employees.” Funimation is an US television and film production company best known for its distribution of anime while Crunchyroll is a website and community focused on, among other things, Asian anime and manga. While both could at least have a motive to carry out a DDoS, no evidence has been produced to back up the HorribleSubs claims. That said, HorribleSubs admits that its key motivation is to annoy Crunchyroll. “We do not translate our own shows because we rip from Crunchyroll, FUNimation, Hulu, The Anime Network, Niconico, and Daisuki,” the site’s about page reads, adding: “We aren’t doing this for e-penis but for the sole reason of pissing off Crunchyroll.” Shortly after, attention turned to anti-piracy outfit Remove Your Media (RYM). The company works with anime companies Funimation and Viz Media, which includes the sending of millions of DMCA notices to Google. The spark came when the company published a tweet (now removed) which threatened to send “thousands” of warning letters to NYAA users once the site was back online. This doesn’t seem like an idle threat. A few weeks ago the company posted a screenshot on Twitter containing an unredacted list of Comcast, Charter and CenturyLink IP addresses said to have been monitored infringing copyright. Due to the NYAA downtime, RYM later indicated it had switched to warning users of Kickass.to. This involvement with anime companies combined with the warning notice statement led to DDoS accusations being directed at RYM. TorrentFreak spoke to the company’s Eric Green and asked if they knew anything about the attacks. “The short answer is No. In fact we were waiting for [NYAA] to go back online to begin monitoring illegal transfers again. Sorry to disappoint but we had no involvement,” Green told TF. Just a couple of hours ago RYM made a new announcement on Twitter, stating that the original tweet had been removed due to false accusations. “Nyaa post deleted due to all the Ddos libel directed at this account. Infringement notices continue to ISPs, for piracy, regardless of tracker,” they conclude. Although it’s impossible to say who is behind the attacks, it does seem improbable that an anti-piracy company getting paid to send notices would do something that is a) seriously illegal and b) counter-productive to getting paid for sending notices. That said, it seems likely that someone who doesn’t appreciate unofficial anime sites operating smoothly is behind the attack. Who that might be will remain a mystery, at least for now. Source: http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-denies-ddosing-anime-sites-140904/

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Russia’s Zvezda television channel website comes under DDoS attack

The channel’s technical experts managed to partially restore the website’s operation, but it is still not working properly Russia’s Zvezda television channel website came under a DDoS attack on Friday. “The Zvezda channel’s website came under a massive DDoS attack. Its first round occurred at 14:00 Moscow time, making the website inaccessible to users,” the channel said in a statement. The channel’s technical experts managed to partially restore the website’s operation, but it is still not working properly. Source: http://en.itar-tass.com/non-political/747331

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DDoS extortion attacks on the rise

While digital ransom attacks come in various types and forms, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are top of the list of methods used by attackers to force money from targeted companies. So says Bryan Hamman, territory manager of Arbor Networks, who points out that in recent weeks, well-known names such as Evernote and Feedly have fallen victim to extortion attacks, but these companies are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this very lucrative criminal activity. InfoSecurity Magazine reports that this year the number of network time protocol amplification attacks increased 371.43%. The average peak DDoS attack volume increased a staggering 807.48%. The news aggregator Feedly said it had come under a DDoS attack from cyber criminals, which was preventing users from accessing its service. “Criminals are attacking Feedly with a distributed denial of service attack. The attacker is trying to extort money from us to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can,” said Feedly in a blog post. “‘Pay up or we’ll take your Web site down’, so goes the adage that usually accompanies ransom-based cyber-attacks,” says Hamman. According to Arbor’s ninth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, DDoS extortion attacks account for 15% of all DDoS attacks. While it may seem like a relatively small percentage, one must consider that as many as 10 000 DDoS attacks occur world-wide every day and the potential cost in damages and reputation can have a significant impact on a targeted organisation, Hamman points out. He explains that DDoS extortion attacks are generally volumetric, high bandwidth attacks launched with the aim of crashing a company’s Web site or server by bombarding it with packets, which originate from a large number of geographically distributed bots. The size of volumetric DDoS attacks continues to increase year on year, and they remain a major threat to enterprises and Internet service providers alike, he adds. “Traditionally, DDoS extortion attacks were used against online gambling sites, around major sporting events. Criminal gangs would initiate attacks that would bring the Web site down just before the event was to start, thus forcing the companies to choose between suffering a major loss in monetary and reputational terms or paying up. Increasingly, however, DDoS attacks are being used to extort money from all sorts of businesses and the reality is that no company should feel safe,” he says. So what is the right response when it comes to extortion demands? Hamman asks. “The answer is simple and always the same – not to give in. Organisations should under no circumstances agree to pay the ransom – it can set a dangerous precedent and encourage more attacks in the future; while it might make the pain go away in the short term, the long-term results are generally not worth it. “Declining to pay comes, of course, with severe consequences – as we saw from recent attacks on Feedly, who suffered from three separate waves of DDoS attacks. However, the company has now recovered from the attack and is operating as normal. Furthermore, it has been praised for its brave decision by the security community and even its own customers,” says Hamman. According to Hamman, many companies still rely on reactive measures such as router filters and firewalls, which are inefficient and not sophisticated enough to protect against organised cyber crime. Instead, he says, organisations need to invest in preventive, multi-layered mitigation, which includes on-premise and cloud protection, as well as allowing for co-operation with their ISP or hosting company. In addition, putting a mitigation strategy in place, should the worst happen, is of crucial importance – especially as only 17% of organisations globally feel they are fully prepared for a security incident. “By building defences, implementing plans ahead of time and refusing to give in, businesses needn’t feel threatened anymore – attackers wanting to make easy money will have to look elsewhere.” Source: http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=136989:DDoS-extortion-attacks-on-the-rise&catid=265

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RIA Novosti Website Hit by DDoS Attack

RIA Novosti’s website has fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers, the agency’s IT specialists reported on Sunday. The mobile version of the website is currently inaccessible. Problems with the website’s full version were also reported for a short period of time. The agency’s terminal for clients has not been hampered. Unidentified hackers first attacked the website of InoSMI. When the attack was neutralized, they attempted to disrupt the work of RIA Novosti’s website. IT specialists are now working to eliminate the disruption that has caused by the attack. This is not the first cyber attack on the news agency. In May 2012, the RIA Novosti website was hit by a DDoS attack from some 2,500 IP-addresses. Another DDoS attack on the agency’s website was carried out in July 2013. Source: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140803/191676816/RIA-Novosti-Website-Hit-by-Cyber-Attack.html

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