The website of the Russian Foreign Ministry has been attacked by DDoS attacks for the past 2 weeks-Information Technology

In the past 2 weeks continuously, the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry has been attacked by hackers non-stop, regardless of day and night.

The information was given by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Solovyov Live on YouTube On March 17, when it was reported that during the past 2 weeks, the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry was attacked by hackers in the form of a denial of service (DDoS), causing difficulties and interruptions in access. continuity.

Several groups of hackers have carried out DDoS attacks on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry over the past two weeks.

According to Russian authorities, the above cyber attacks were carried out by various groups of hackers from professional to amateur.

Not only the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, but many websites of many government agencies, agencies and other large organizations in Russia have been repeatedly hacked by hackers.

It can be mentioned that on the evening of February 25, just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military campaign to “de-arm and de-fascist Ukraine”, users had problems accessing the websites. website of the Kremlin, Government and State Duma (lower house) of Russia. Russian authorities then reported an unprecedented increase in DDoS attacks, including on the public service portal.

In the following days, the websites of many Russian media channels such as RBC, TASS, Izvestia and Kommersant were also attacked by hackers.

It is known that a denial of service (DDoS) attack is an action where hackers take advantage of information security features or flaws of a service system to stop or prevent users from accessing that service.

Often, a denial of service attack causes a program or system to crash or crash, partially or completely, forcing the service administrator to suspend service and restart the system. .