Conley
12-26-2011, 01:25 PM
Researchers from ESET, the renowned security solutions provider, discovered that a couple of Russian forums, on which political topics are debated, are under heavy attack, one of them barely managing to stay afloat.
Thousands of citizens are protesting these days on the streets of Russia’s cities as a result of the recent elections that took place. Many are blaming the current governing party for interfering in the elections to make sure they obtain the most votes.
As it would be expected in the 21st century, hacktivists and regular Internet users are stating their opinions on forums and social media networks, but it seems that cybercriminals who support the current regime want to silence them.
Superjedi.ru, a forum that has a section specially designed for political discussions, was detected by ESET as being under heavy fire from a botnet that relies on a piece of malware calledWin32/Flooder.Ramagedo.
“We are under DDOS-attack by unknown persons. We do everything to keep the forum working. Thank you for being with us!” reads a message on Superjedi.ru.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Botnets-Attempt-to-Silence-Russian-Political-Forums-240137.shtml (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Botnets-Attempt-to-Silence-Russian-Political-Forums-240137.shtml)
Guess they are not coming after us since we've had some threads complementary to Putin, like the one where we have photos of him looking like a badass. :laugh:
Seriously though, the protests against him are increasing and it looks like they're doing everything they can to stop it from spreading.
Thousands of citizens are protesting these days on the streets of Russia’s cities as a result of the recent elections that took place. Many are blaming the current governing party for interfering in the elections to make sure they obtain the most votes.
As it would be expected in the 21st century, hacktivists and regular Internet users are stating their opinions on forums and social media networks, but it seems that cybercriminals who support the current regime want to silence them.
Superjedi.ru, a forum that has a section specially designed for political discussions, was detected by ESET as being under heavy fire from a botnet that relies on a piece of malware calledWin32/Flooder.Ramagedo.
“We are under DDOS-attack by unknown persons. We do everything to keep the forum working. Thank you for being with us!” reads a message on Superjedi.ru.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Botnets-Attempt-to-Silence-Russian-Political-Forums-240137.shtml (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Botnets-Attempt-to-Silence-Russian-Political-Forums-240137.shtml)
Guess they are not coming after us since we've had some threads complementary to Putin, like the one where we have photos of him looking like a badass. :laugh:
Seriously though, the protests against him are increasing and it looks like they're doing everything they can to stop it from spreading.