The largest Russian media have undergone DDoS attacks. In particular, “Lenta.ru”, “Gazety.Ru”, RBC reported on such problems, reports Ukraina.ru.
Massified requests for servers “Renta.ru”, “Gazeta.Ru” and Rambler began to arrive on Thursday, February 25, in the afternoon. Before that, Sevastopol authorities informed about the hacker attack on the information resources of the city. The site RT was attacked. Responsibility for the attack took over the hacker group Anonymous, which announced the “cyberwoman to the Russian government.” Also, this organization announced involvement in attacks on Russian Internet providers and government sites.
DDOS attack is an intentional direction to the site of such a number of requests that exceeds the network bandwidth, which will lead to a resource blocking.