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| BRICS Games hit by major DDoS attack |
| 2024-06-22 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The BRICS Games platforms suffered a major DDoS attack on June 21. Hackers used tens of thousands of IP addresses to stop the operation of digital resources at the event sites, said Vladimir Dryukov, head of the Solar JSOC cyberattack countermeasure center of the Solar Group. According to him, the cyber attacks began at approximately 12:00 Moscow time. “We have already repelled three waves of cyber attacks, which involved almost all known types of DDoS, which is rare. Malicious requests were sent from tens of thousands of IP addresses from various countries; the attack power at its peak reached 400 Gbit/s,” Dryukov told reporters. The head of a cybersecurity company added that hackers attacked nine BRICS Games venues. Employees of the cyberattack countermeasures center were required to immediately respond to what was happening and reconfigure defense mechanisms taking into account hacker attack vectors, Dryukov concluded. The BRICS Games are taking place in Kazan from June 12 to 24. About 5 thousand athletes from more than 90 countries are participating in the competition, they will compete for 387 sets of medals. After the seventh day, the Russian team took first place in the medal standings of the Games, the athletes won 173 gold, 94 silver and 65 bronze medals. As Regnum reported, Russia is the country most attacked by hackers in the world, said Sergei Golovanov, chief expert at Kaspersky Lab, on May 2. Before the coronavirus pandemic, these chances were 30–35%; during the pandemic they rose to 40–50% and now they are over 70%, he clarified. Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the FSB to strengthen the protection of information infrastructure, as well as expand preventive response measures against the backdrop of an increase in the number of cyber attacks. The head of state proposed that the special services actively cooperate with scientists involved in digital development, business, and use domestic achievements in quantum technologies and the development of artificial intelligence to solve cyber defense problems. Related: DDoS attack 06/06/2024 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 5, 2024 DDoS attack 04/01/2024 Der Tagesspiegel: Germany is not ready for large-scale cyber attacks DDoS attack 03/22/2024 More than 12 million DDoS attacks carried out on Central Election Commission resources during the presidential election |
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