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Large-Scale Website Attacks Due to Unrest in Estonia

Mikko Hyppönen writes on the F-Secure "News from the Lab" Blog:

Quoting CNN:

"Police arrested 600 people and 96 were injured in a second night of clashes in Estonia's capital over the removal of a disputed World War Two Red Army monument ... Russia has reacted furiously to the moving of the monument ... Estonia has said the monument had become a public order menace as a focus for Estonian and Russian nationalists."

We're now seeing large attacks against websites run by Estonian goverment. Some of the sites are unreachable. Others are up, but do not allow any traffic from foreign IP addresses.

Here's the status as we saw it on Saturday at 15:00 GMT.

posted by Fergie @ 4/28/2007 03:42:00 PM