The Ukrainian civil network OPORA has postponed the publication of the statistical ballot count in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its servers.
“The site and hosting where OPORA processes information and stores
its database of violations have experienced large-scale DDoS attacks
since 14:00 on Oct. 28, as a result of which all the said instruments
were disabled. The DDoS attack was carried out outside Ukraine, in
particular, from the territory of China and Korea. An analysis of the IP
addresses of the computers used in this attack showed that the attack
was carried out by 2,000 computers, which sent countless senseless
requests to the OPORA hosting using a handwritten script. As a result,
the sites oporaua.org and map.oporaua.org and the chain’s storage
hosting were disabled,” OPORA said in a report released on Monday
morning.
OPORA representatives were expected to give a press conference at
9:30 a.m. The time and location of the press conference will be reported
later.
