Cyber Attacks on Russian Websites Increasingly Political
The Moscow Times
Jul. 09 2014 20:36
Commercial hackers in Russia are giving way to politically motivated cyber criminals targeting ideological enemies, a new study said Wednesday.
The most powerful DDoS attacks on Russian websites in the first six months of 2014 were triggered by the political crisis in Ukraine, digital security company Qrator Labs revealed.
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About 2,700 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occurred during the first six months of 2014, compared with 4,400 over the same period last year, Bfm.ru said.
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The media made the list of prime DDoS targets along with payment systems and real estate websites. Last season, Forex websites and online stock exchanges accounted for the "absolute majority" of the attacks, the study said, without providing exact figures.
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COMMENT
Denial of service attacks seek to make service unavailable:
"Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways ..."
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