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Russia: Opposition Websites and DDoS
- http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/01/rus...sites-and-ddos/
January 6, 2009 - "We’re again seeing reports about political DDoS targets within Russia. This time we saw it mentioned in the blog post Russian Opposition Websites Shut Down By Attacks* from the blog The Other Russia. And again we have data to support the claims. The site www .grani .ru has come under attack from two Black Energy botnets. One of them is well known to many of us, “candy-country .com”, and the other is relatively new on the scene, 22×2x2×22 .com. Both are hard at work with HTTP floods against the site.
Kasparov .ru is back in the news and again being targeted by Black Enegy botnets. 22×2x2×22 .com is striking the site, as well as the well known BE botnet ad .yandexshit .com.... the website of MSK radio, echo .msk .ru, is also under attack by these two botnets. Voices of dissent again being quieted by force.
At least some of these bots participated in the recent DDoS attacks between Russia and Georgia, but they’ve also struck non-political targets quite a bit in the past year or so. Escort sites, gambling sites, etc. Politics is a rough sport in Russia, and the use of DDoS to silence the opposition’s website shows the power of the web in getting a voice out, its value in being silenced, and possibly what’s to come in the future."
* http://preview.tinyurl.com/8nff8b