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…