Knocking Kyrgyzstan Offline

By: Jillian C. York on 27 February 2009
Posted in Kyrgyzstan, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering

From January 18th until the end of the month, major Kyrgyz Internet service providers serving 80% of the nation’s Internet users were under a major hackers’ attack essentially leaving the country offline. SecureWorks suggested (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310906904622741.html?mod=WSJ_TimesEMEA) that the DDoS attack was organized by Russian “cyber-militia” however Russian network security analysts denied (http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=247281&cid=160) all the allegations.