Russian hackers launch Georgia offensive
Cyber blitzkreig
RUSSIAN HACKERS have launched a massive cyber attack against a number of Georgian sites and servers.
The Caucasus Network in Tbilisi is reportedly under siege by thousands of hijacked PCs that are flooding its servers with spoofed traffic.
Russian hackers have also broken into the Georgian Foreign Affairs website and replaced official photos with pictures depicting the country's president as a Nazi.
According to the RBN website, Russian computers currently control all traffic to Georgia’s key servers. Although a group of German hackers managed to temporarily re-route traffic via Deutsche Telekom, the site has requested international assistance to provide Internet routing “via neutral cyber space”.
Anyone at a Swiss ISP listening? µ
L'Inq
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Denial yet?
I think Russia denied launching cyberwarfare upon eastern Europe before, is there forensic evidence that this is the same organised force as last time? Anyway, bye-bye Georgia, this is what happens when you help NATO and expect reciprocity.georgian site
Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website which was attacked several days ago is now back up by NATO Cyber Defense, which hq is located in Estonia, Tallinn.link: http://www.mfa.gov.ge/
Tbili
Estonia sending cyber defense experts to Georgia:http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/30935