A Russian hosting provider allegedly involved in a recent cyberattack against independent media organizations in the country is reportedly connected to a state-affiliated research center sanctioned by the U.S., according to new research. The hosting provider, Biterika, generated one-third of the junk traffic that flooded the websites of IStories and Verstka after they published an exposé on a child sex trafficking network in Russia that allegedly involved oligarchs and other powerful figures. Within hours of publication earlier in June, both organizations suffered coordinated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks designed to disrupt access to their websites, according to researchers at the Sweden-based digital forensics organization Qurium.
Cyberattack on Russian independent media had links to US-sanctioned institute, researchers find (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)
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