The Vedomosti edition, citing a source in Yandex, reported that the servers of the search giant were subjected to the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet. Another source in the company confirmed this information, saying that Yandex had a hard time containing the attack last week, and today it is still ongoing. By the way, its scale was also confirmed by the company Cloudflare, which specializes in repelling cyberattacks.
Yandex confirmed the information about the attack, assuring that it did not affect the operation of services. User data was not affected either. The company does not disclose other details.
Some security experts associate the increased attacks in recent months with the recently emerging botnet, which is built on the network equipment of a popular Baltic vendor. We can talk about the routers of the Latvian company MikroTik, in the operating system of which (RouterOS) a vulnerability was discovered. But a MikroTik spokesman said it was eliminated in 2018. However, many devices continue to run on old software.
By the way, in recent days there have been massive DDOS attacks on Russian companies, including Sberbank and VKontakte.
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