Hackers Deface European News Agency Website

Hackers have defaced the website of Latvian news agency LETA, which today remains inaccessible, an agency official told reporters.

RIA Novosti reported that visitors to LETA’s website encountered a message saying, “Dear colleagues, before publishing questionable specialists’ opinion about small hosting companies and discussing competence matters, we advise you to revise the content of these articles and stop publishing offensive texts.”

The unknown cyber assailant…

Increase in Latvian Botnet Causes Row

The recent rise in malicious and annoying email setting forth from Latvia has ignited a row between the country’s top domain registry and the anti-spam organization Spamhaus.

NIC.LV, which currently administers all the .lv domains, claims Spamhaus is “impolite, arrogant and even rude.” The rhetoric follows Spamhaus’ decision to place a large portion of Latvian IP…

British ISP Hit by DDoS from Latvia

Internet Service Provider (ISP) Vispa was downed for approximately 12 hours late last week by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack emanating from within Latvia. While internet service was available to customers after 12 hours, the phone service was still affected late Friday.

Vispa commercial director Adam Binks said”As a result of a major denial of service attack on our network we suffered a severe outage between 1am and…