Problems with access to Charter’97 site due to DDoS attack

Today at 9.00pm (Minsk time) the distributed denial-of-service attack on Charter’97 site was continued. There are problems with access to the site.

We have already informed that yesterday supporting staff recorded a short 30-minute DDoS attack from a little number of IP addresses. The yesterday’s attack was easily repelled. Unfortunately, today we have faced a serious DDoS attack and the access to the site will probably be unavailable in the next few days.

The time and the character of the attack demonstrate that the Belarusian authorities continue to take attempts of blocking unwanted information on the Internet, they even descend to such criminal methods as DDoS. The yesterday’s test attack showed that hackers had been contracted to perform it and an executor demonstrated an ordering party his abilities.

The DDoS technique is rather simple. An abuser infects a large amount of computers all over the world with a special virus. By this action a hacker creates a net of computers, which can fulfil his or her orders. Then an abuser enters data and sends a command to attack a certain address on the Internet. The infected computers send mass requests to the attacked site and inundate the channel access with false requests, not allowing ordinary users to open the site.

It should be reminded that Charnobyl Way is held today in Minsk.

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