The sites of the online action in honor of the victory in the Great Patriotic War were attacked by hackers

Sites where the online campaign Immortal regiment was broadcast, as well as the hotline’s telephone number, were subjected to repeated hacker attacks on May 9, the press service of the All-Russian public civil-patriotic movement Immortal Regiment of Russia reported on Sunday.

Recall that on May 9, 2020, Russia celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

“Immediately before the festive date, the website of the broadcast of the victorious procession, the site of the movement Immortal Regiment https://www.polkrf.ru/, the site of the movement Victory Volunteers, whose participants helped organize the procession, as well as the hotline’s telephone number, were repeatedly attacked hackers,” said the press service.

The first attack took place from 6 to 9 am Moscow time, hackers made more than 9 million requests to the site. The attack power was 18.5 thousand requests per second. Because of this, the processor capacity of the server was used up, and the site was threatened with a shutdown. Many users complained about problems downloading the broadcast.

Specialists were able to stop this attack, eliminate the vulnerability and quickly restore the site.
“646 unique IP addresses were used for the attack. 64% of the servers involved in the DDOS attack are located on the territory of European countries, 27% on the territory of North America, 3% in Asia,” found the developers.

The second attack of similar power occurred at 11 am. Specialists were able immediately to prevent the attack, eliminate vulnerabilities, and restore the normal operation of the site. that the majority of IP addresses used for the attack were located in Europe (64%). Another 27% of addresses were attacked from North America.

The all-Russian action Immortal regiment for the first time in history is completely held in an online format in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.