Report: Black Lives Matter Website the Target of More Than 100 DDoS Attacks

Source: The Root

Report: Black Lives Matter Website the Target of More Than 100 DDoS Attacks

While a number of the attacks appear to have been coordinated, there is evidence that “many actors jumped on the bandwagon of a more powerful attack to claim some of the credit.

By: Monique Judge
Posted: December 15, 2016

The official Black Lives Matter website was the target of more than 100 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over a six-month period in 2016, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Deflect Labs provides DDoS protection to the Black Lives Matter website, and in a report published today, the company said that from April 29 to Oct. 15, 2016, it recorded more than 100 separate DDoS attacks against the website attempting to bring it down.

DDoS attacks The DDoS attacks are viewed as a means of silencing BLM and their efforts on the Internet.

Deflect Labs is a part of eQualit.ie, a Canadian digital security company with a focus on privacy, online security, and information management. According to their website, Deflect is a website security project working with independent media, human rights organizations and activists. It offers DDoS mitigation, secure hosting and attack analytics, free of charge to qualifying organizations.



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