LiveJournal DDoS attacked, again.

[randomness]

From http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/it_telecom/news/66202/Livejournal_subjected_to_DDoS_hack_attack, an Armenian news site:

Today, the Russian network of famous Livejournal.com blog was subjected to a DDoS hack attack, Lenta.ru reported. This has been a second major attack on LJ during this year.

The head of Livejournal Russia, Svetlana Ivannikova confirmed that the network isn’t available because of a DDoS hack attack.

LJ network is also popular among Armenian bloggers. As a popular Armenian blogger, Samvel Martirosyan told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, there are two versions of the incident.

“According to the first version, the attack is aimed against Russian opposition bloggers. The other opinion is that the attack was meant to destroy LJ as the network became a platform for the Russian opposition,” the blogger said.

Martirosyan, however, believes that the attack may be a power test for cyber troops, who attacked the network in an attempt to destroy the stored archives. The blogger is unsure whether the troops were Russian.

“And as an ordinary blogger, I’ll just wait for the LJ work to resume,” Martirosyan said.

The article from lenta.ru referenced above:

Живой журнал снова "упал" из-за атаки хакеров

Блогохостинг LiveJournal 4 апреля перестал функционировать из-за очередной DDoS-атаки, сообщает пресс-служба компании SUP.

Руководитель LiveJournal Russia Светлана Иванникова подтвердила, что причиной технического сбоя стала атака хакеров. "Мы подтверждаем, что уже примерно в течение часа сервис работает некорректно, причина заключается в новой DDoS-атаке на LiveJournal. Администраторы в курсе проблемы и уже выявляют адресатов и источники атаки", - говорится в заявлении Иванниковой, опубликованном в 15:20 по московскому времени.

Недоступность сайта livejournal.com на момент написания новости подтверждает и сервис DownForEveryOneOrJustMe.

30 марта 2011 года LiveJournal подвергся сильнейшей DDoS-атаке в своей истории и был недоступен для пользователей в течение нескольких часов. Пресс-служба компании SUP отказалась назвать главных адресатов DDoS-атаки и ее предполагаемых исполнителей.

При этом Светлана Иванникова отметила, что адресатами не являются "известные персоны", видимо, имея в виду Алексея Навального и Никиту Михалкова, чьи Живые журналы вызывали наибольший резонанс в блогосфере в последнее время.

Nothing in that article about opposition bloggers being the target of attacks, but earlier stories on lenta.ru about the attack on the 31st of March mention Alexei Anatolievich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный), the Russian political and social activist, as a possible target.

Comments

[jendaviswilson.livejournal.com]

Does this have anything to do with the barrage of Cyrillic bot-spam in the past few months? I had to lock down the costumes community because of all the stupid Russian spammers.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

No idea, I'm afraid. But I've seen some of that, too.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

This is useful info! Thank you!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Sure, glad it's helpful!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

"in an attempt to destroy the stored archives."
Ugh. I hope that's not really their goal. I really really ought to backup my LJ just in case. *sigh* Thanks for posting these links.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I really really ought to backup my LJ just in case. *sigh*

I haven't gotten around to it yet, either.

Thanks for posting these links.

Sure, glad it was helpful.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

It pleases me no end that you also posted the original Russian text. :)

(It's totally unreadable to me, but, still, happy as a clam.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. I actually have some people on my flist who can read it, and I figured everyone else might use a translator, so it would be helpful to post the original.

invite codes

[nrrrdy-grrrl.livejournal.com]

http://www.dreamwidth.org/

If you have Russian Federation citizens on your flist, feel free to pass this along so they can back up their LJ's.

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Re: invite codes

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

You may already know about this, but http://dw-codesharing.dreamwidth.org/ is a community hosting both requests for codes and codes available being posted.

Re: invite codes

[nrrrdy-grrrl.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. I had two Russians on my Flist that I was going to pass these along to, but they vanished a few days ago, sadly, so I wanted to make sure SOMEBODY over there could get their hands on these things. Thank you.

Re: invite codes

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

No problem, glad to help!

[adigunnima.livejournal.com]

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