Malaysian Online News Portal Suffers Distributed Denial-of-service Attack
Recently, a popular and independent Malaysian online news portal suffered cyber-attacks. Attackers launched sustained attacks on Malaysiakini.com, virtually shutting down main servers hosted at two different data centers of the company in Kuala Lumpur. Information security professionals of the organization have identified the attacks as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and are trying to restore the website. The cyber-attack on the news portal follows a similar attack on another website sarawakreport.org. The attacks come just days before scheduled elections in the...
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