Russian Opposition Websites Shut Down By Attacks

December 25th, 2008 •

A set of Russian opposition news sites are back online after a series of distributed-denial of service (DDoS) attacks overwhelmed their servers.

Kasparov.ru, the internet portal of the United Civil Front party, was forced offline Monday evening, the editorial office said. As many as 1,500 requests per second were sent to the site, which could not handle the load, and the attacks continued well into the following day. Nazbol.ru, the website of the banned National Bolshevik Party, was concurrently taken down.

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December 1st, 2008

AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack

Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 8:07 am

Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren’t able to do business through the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay was under a large scale DDoS attack, according to a notice left by a company representative. Seven hours of downtime right in the middle of the Christmas shopping season with millions of businesses using the service affected, isn’t coincidental. This DDoS attack, just like the recent DDoS attack again a popular anti-fraud site, may have well been outsourced...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

DDoS Attack Graphs from Russia vs Georgia's Cyberattacks 

Part of Georgia's information warfare campaign aiming to minimize the bandwidth impact on its de-facto ...

DDoS attack crippled the BBC website

Posted in Outages on November 11th, 2008 by Pingdom

The BBC website was subjected to a DDoS attack on Thursday evening (November 6) that crippled the ...

 Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack

Posted by Soulskill on Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:19 AM from the may-xenu-protect-you dept.

lbwbl writes with news that a New Jersey man will plead guilty to one felony count of 'unauthorized impairment of a protected computer' for his distributed denial of service attacks on Scientology websites as part of 'Anonymous' earlier this year. From Wired: "He faces a likely sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison based on stipulations in his plea agreement, which also obliges him to pay $37,500 in restitution. ...

Wordpress Blogs Taken Down by DDOS Attack

by Brian Heater

It's the hosted blogging platform of choice for sites ranging from CNN to Scobelizer--so it's a big deal when Wordpress.com goes down. A number of sites using the Automattic-owned blogging service were taken down for a short while this morning when Wordpress.com was hit with a denial-of-service attack.

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Spammers regaining control over Srizbi botnet

Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming

A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said Wednesday, and is again under the control of criminals.