Twitter, Facebook DDoS Targeted Georgian Blogger
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Twitter, Facebook, DDoS, attack, Georgia | Themes: The Internet
Yesterday's attacks on several social networking websites may have been an attempt to target just one user.
Yesterday was a dark morning for social networking. Twitter was down for several hours as a result of a distributed denial of service attack, with Facebook and LiveJournal having problems too. So who was behind the DDoS attacks and more importantly, why were they doing it?
Well, we might not know the who, but it seem the targeted site may have figured out why. Last we heard, Facebook and Twitter were working together to investigate the attacks. Citing Facebook's Chief Security Officer Max Kelly, CNET today reports that it was a Georgian blogger that the attackers were targeting. Going by the name of Cyxymu, the user is said to have accounts on all of the sites affected by the DDoS attacks.
"It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard," Kelly said, according to CNet. "We're actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can."
Also affected by the attack were YouTube and Google's Blogger. Check out the full story here.
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Some chinese policy again...
It would be safe to assume it's the Russians then. They like to smack Georgia around every now adn then. Some insolent Georgian must have spoken up.
Not very clever of the Russians if they did order it,
now I know who this guy is and I am enticed into wanting to hear what he has to say even though I have no interest in the politics of that area...
what is he trying to tell the public?
What a load of BS. So someone orchestrated a DDOS attack on some of the largest sites on the internet just to shut up some no-name blogger?
Yeah, I have accounts on facebook, twitter, youtube, and google. Maybe they were trying to shut me up! After all, I am that important!
""Now it's obvious it's a special attack against me and Georgians," said the message, in Russian. "
wow.... cyberwar for real!
Nice try, KGB (or the KGB in the new name)
By the way.... if this is for real... cyberattacking our US website... hmm... isn't this kind of national security issue?
Where is our FBI and Homeland Security?... are they still busy sueing that Boston student for download/sharing music on net?
hmmm.....
Exactly how many computers/how much bandwidth would be required to take down huge sites like Facebook and Twitter?
I still agree with a poster to a previous article...MySpace did it...
Next up radioactive poisoning! (Yeah that's subtle)
The new KGB is called the FSB
The plot thickens! *dons Sherlock Holmes costume w/magnifying glass and peers around with it*
Well before the Georgian conflict started Russian hackers were busy at work hacking Georgian sites. It would be no surprise if these hackers were working directly for the Russian government.
Just thought I might add that Xbox Live went down yesterday as well around 11:05pm (EST). No idea if it's related, but could be. Might have just been a coincidental technical glitch.
I8CookieMonster: it doesn't necessarily take a lot of bandwidth to run a DDoS... you could send craploads of bogus data requests to the site sent to spoofed addies... or a number of other things that don't require large sums of bandwidth from the attackers...
Yeah that shut him up... I'm sure 99% of people who read this article have never heard of him. And probably a bunch of people are going to go google his blog (and hope that it has an English translation). Censorship fail.
It. Is. Iran.
And their allies.
Wake up.
It. Is. Iran.And their allies.Wake up.
Assumptions. Make. You. Look. Stoooopid.
In Soviet Russia, Twitter DDoS You!
"Cyxymu" (Sukhumi) seems to be the cyrillic name of is the capital of Abkhazia, the other former provice of Georgia, that Georgians invaded in 1992, to suppress its independance movement.
Anyway, why would FSB PR that kid this way?
If even Condoleezza Rice admited that it was Georgia that started the war in S.O., only the blind ones can still believe the Georgian bluff. They have already spread so much BS regarding the war to fool us all, one more lie coming from a Georgian kid incapable to accept the painful truth won't change anything.
"It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard"
Oh, the usual pathos without any meaning. I wonder what this voice can tell us? That Georgians barbarically killed more than a thousand civilians with Grad launchers in S.O. ... and get US humanitarian help now?
This world is truly insane.
"Yesterday was a dark morning for social networking."
And thus, a great morning for humanity.
"Yesterday was a dark morning for social networking."And thus, a great morning for humanity.
Hello fellow human
Yesterday (8/8/09) was the 1 year anniversary of a conflict involving Russia, Georgia and the disputed region of south Osettia. Depending on whose propaganda you believe this was either:
a) a massacre of south ossetians by georgia in which russia had to send troops in for humanitarian reasons to protect the ossetians.
b) Russia attacked Georgia and they defended themselves; the ossetians were caught in the crossfire.
Version a) is the one peddled by russia and b) by the USA. This is a bit of an oversimplification but it is as much info as I can find out. There's too much bullshit flying round for anyone to know the real truth. South Ossetia is run by a russian puppet president who used to be high up in the USSR's communist party. Most of the UN don't consider S. Osettia to be an independent country. Georgia is (allegedly) supporeted by the USA and Israel.
I believe neither version myself, I just feel sorry for those who didn't deserve to have their families killed and homes destroyed.
This it has backfired for the Russians, thats if they wanted to keep the anniversary low key. Thats if they done this to silence Giorgi (Cyxymu )
im just not so sure what the motives are.....
http://www.blatantnews.com/news/ru [...] ogger.html
This it has backfired for the Russians, thats if they wanted to keep the anniversary low key. Thats if they done this to silence Giorgi (Cyxymu )im just not so sure what the motives are.....http://www.blatantnews.com/news/ru [...] ogger.html
I don't think Russia want to keep it low key at all; they just want to rewrite what did/didn't happen. Their version of events rolled non-stop on "Russia Today" on the anniversary. Somewhat nauseating after a while.