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The second quarter of 2019 turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. True, most of the campaigns that attracted media attention appeared to be politically, rather than commercially, motivated — and that despite the fact that some security experts discern a clear fall in hacktivism in recent years.
Let’s begin with an attack that is technically outside the chronological framework of this report, since it took place on March 5 (but was reported in early May). It was targeted against a computer system regulating the supply of electricity to various districts of Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Power supply systems in California and Wyoming also experienced problems. This is a relatively rare case of an attack on a power grid in a densely populated area. The attack was large-scale, but relatively primitive. It did not cause any power outages, but there were “disruptions in the normal operation of the systems,” as the US Department of Energy described the incident. As to the purpose and perpetrators of the attack, no information was forthcoming.
In the second half of April, there were also numerous DDoS attacks against Ecuador. As stated by the country’s deputy minister for information and communications, the websites of public institutions experienced 40 million cyber attacks of various kinds, including DDoS. The web pages of the Central Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Presidential Office suffered the most. The wave of attacks was hacktivist in nature: the attackers were protesting ..
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