DDoS on Russian opposition news outlet

[AlphaCentauri]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/arti ... 98649.html

Novaya Gazeta is the leading independent newspaper in Russia, owned in part by former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Five of their journalists have been murdered, which makes you wonder why anyone thinks a DDoS would silence them. Their stories are being mirrored on novayagazeta.livejournal.com

[spamislame]

The hell's going on lately?!

SiL

[meep]

yea, DDoSing from Russia is apparently extending into other areas (apparent political entities), besides former Soviet satellites' and/or Soviet Republics' websites. It sounds like such targeting may worsen and expand into other areas online besides foreign government websites and media (newspapers).

[AlphaCentauri]

The attack began Jan. 26 at 9 am Moscow time. Any particular spam drop off about that time?

[spamislame]

You know: that is a possibility.

I can only speak for myself and maybe six others I know, but my volume overall is wayyyy down over the past two weeks.

SiL

[spamislame]

This may be related:

http://blog.trendmicro.com/the-pushdo-p ... -not-ddos/

The PUSHDO botnet has been in the news lately as the culprit in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a variety of well-known websites. Some publications even documented this recent attack extensively. After spending some months last year studying and monitoring the PUSHDO/CUTWAIL botnet and after checking the latest samples, we can affirm that this particular attack is not PUSHDO related.

?

SiL