Attacks On Hong Kong Protesters
Hong Kong is apparently the target of a huge cyber-attack, with protesters servers first appearing on Saturday 31st August according to Digital Attack Map, which provides information on daily cyber-attacks around the world, showed the financial hub at the center of distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks.
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources.
They often target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access important information. This appears to be the attack that is going on in Honk Kong.
LIHKG is a forum used by demonstrators to organise mass rallies in Hong Kong, said its servers were hit maliciously by a large DDoS attack in a way that had never seen before.
While some of LIHKG’s services were interrupted, it was fully restored hours later, according to a Twitter post.
This is the second large cyber-attack to hit apps used this summer by protesters to organise during unrest in Hong Kong. In June, messaging service Telegram said it had been hit by a powerful attack coming out of China.
The protesters’ use of messaging apps and chat rooms has allowed them to quickly change and implement plans, frustrating government efforts to control them.
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam said recently that she wouldn’t rule out all measures to quell protests, including invoking an emergency rule that would allow her to unilaterally shut down the Internet or selectively block apps that were helping protesters organise.
Digital Attack Map: Bloomberg:
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