Newsweek Suffers DDoS Attack Over Trump Article
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/03/2016 10:54 AM
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Newsweek got knocked off line after publishing a critic of Donald Trump.
The magazine wrote an article claiming that a company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump broke an embargo against doing deals with Cuba.
At first, the company thought it was just a very popular article, but soon realized it was a DDoS attack.
Servers all around the world were targeting the site, with the majority of them coming from Russia.
"Last night we were on the receiving end of what our IT chief called a 'massive' DoS [denial of service] attack," comment editor in chief Jim Impoco.
"As with any DDoS [distributed DoS] attack, there are lots of IP addresses, but the main ones are Russian, though that in itself does not prove anything. We are still investigating."
The article was written by staffer Kurt Eichenwald who claimed that former employees of Trump Hotels had arranged a visit to Cuba in 1998 to explore the possibility of joint ventures with the communist regime.
The article seems to have irked a lot of people, esp. those who control a lot of Russian servers.
Source: The Register
The magazine wrote an article claiming that a company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump broke an embargo against doing deals with Cuba.At first, the company thought it was just a very popular article, but soon realized it was a DDoS attack.
Servers all around the world were targeting the site, with the majority of them coming from Russia.
"Last night we were on the receiving end of what our IT chief called a 'massive' DoS [denial of service] attack," comment editor in chief Jim Impoco.
"As with any DDoS [distributed DoS] attack, there are lots of IP addresses, but the main ones are Russian, though that in itself does not prove anything. We are still investigating."
The article was written by staffer Kurt Eichenwald who claimed that former employees of Trump Hotels had arranged a visit to Cuba in 1998 to explore the possibility of joint ventures with the communist regime.
The article seems to have irked a lot of people, esp. those who control a lot of Russian servers.
Source: The Register
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