A large-scale outage of services and websites in Russia has occurred as a result of a massive DDoS attack on Russian telecom operators. Post about this appeared On the official website of the GRChTs, a subsidiary of Roskomnadzor (RKN).
“Starting from 14:00 on August 21, the Center for Monitoring and Control of Public Communications Networks (CPM SSOP) recorded a failure in the operation of a number of services in Russia. The failure is associated with a DDoS attack on Russian telecom operators. As of 15:00 Moscow time, the attack was repelled, services are continuing as usual, GRCHTS said in a statement.
As a result of the cyberattack, Russians experienced problems working with popular services such as Telegram, Wikipedia, Discord, WhatsApp, and others. The outages affected subscribers of Beeline, MTS, Rostelecom, and Tele2. As can be seen from the report of the DownDetector service, complaints about the instability of the listed resources also came from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
At the time of publication of the news, the problems in RuNet had been resolved.
Previously It turned outHe said hackers had carried out mass attacks on Russian online stores before September 1.