“Over the last year there have not been any DoS-attacks or any other interference in the website’s functioning. Now programmers are studying the data received; we will wait for their judgment,” Barys Haretski, Spokesman for the Belarusian Association of Journalists, says.
According to the BAJ representative, hackers who are currenly carrying out the DoS-attack have Russian IP-addresses.
Information security experts sum up several reasons for DoS-attacking websites, i.e. personal enmity, fun and prank, political struggle, unfair competition, extortion or blackmail.
“Someone might have decided just to have [hacking] practice when attacking our server. In any case, our response will be adequate; law enforcement agencies may be involved in the case. After all, Belarusian law criminalizes such actions,” Haretski stresses.