The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation has reported that a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Kursk Region’s local services has been successfully thwarted.
“A massive DDoS attack on the regional services of the Kursk Region has been repelled and specialists have already restored all online activity,” the agency said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.
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Source: TASS News
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