Cyber War Part of Kyrgyzstan Ethnic Conflict
The recent ethnic troubles in Kyrgyzstan have also included attacks in cyberspace against government and media websites, according to Russian cybersecurity experts.
The assaults appear to be a result of distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks which flood websites with illegitimate data requests from “bot” computers, blocking any legitimate data requests from getting through. The DDoS attacks targeted websites in the .kg domain, leaving individuals without access to official government information, Roman Romachev, the Director General of the R-Techno agency of business intelligence, told The Voice of Russia.
While the attacks remain rather muted, some experts say that any intervention by outsides countries could be met with increased cyber attacks. Russian IT-analyst Andrei Masalovich of DialogueScience Inc. said he believes cyber attacks will target any countries that move in to quell the ethnic unrest.
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