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German government sites faced DDoS attacks

on January 7, 2015 |
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A German official says Chancellor Angela Merkel’s website and several other German government sites have been blocked, and a pro-Russian organization has claimed responsibility.

A pro-Russian organization calling itself CyberBerkut claimed on its website Wednesday to have blocked the official sites of Merkel and the German Parliament ahead of a visit to Berlin by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Merkel has been a leading figure in attempts to calm the Ukraine crisis.

Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said several government websites were unreachable Wednesday morning because of a “serious attack clearly caused by a multitude of external systems” — what is known as a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack.

Seibert says the attack is still being analyzed, and he did not say who was believed to be responsible.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/07/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-merkel-cyberattack.html?_r=0

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