Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime
2,000 Sites Knocked Offline in Suspected State-Sponsored Attack Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • October 29, 2019 Some affected websites' homepages were replaced by this picture of self-exiled former President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Photo: Pirveli TV)The country of Georgia on Monday was hammered by cyberattacks that appeared to disrupt access to at least 2,000 government, news media and court websites, according to news reports.
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili's spokeswoman, Sopho Jajanashvili, told news outlet AFP on Monday that the president's website was "attacked by hackers this afternoon" and that "law enforcement agencies are investigating the incident."
Many sites saw their homepages replaced by a picture of self-exiled former President Mikheil Saakashvili in front of a Georgian flag, captioned with the phrase "I'll be back."
"The scale of this attack is something we haven't seen before," cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward, a professor of computer science at the University of Surrey, tells the BBC (see: Stung by Takedowns, Criminals Tap Distributed Dark Markets). "With the scale and the nature of the targets, it's difficult not to conclude that this was a state-sponsored attack," he said ..
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