Russia says ‘unprecedented’ cyber attack hits foreign ministry amid Brics summit
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The cyber attack was "unprecedented in scale", said a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.
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MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Oct 23, coinciding with the major Brics summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Earlier Ms Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).
“A massive cyber attack from abroad began this morning on the infrastructure of the official website, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s portal,” she said.
She noted that the ministry regularly encounters similar attacks, but the attack on Oct 23 was “unprecedented in scale”.
The Brics summit, aimed at demonstrating Moscow’s global standing despite Western sanctions, takes place in Russia’s Kazan on Oct 22 to 24. REUTERS
