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On the morning of January 31, the electronic services of the government of the Novosibirsk Region were subjected to a powerful DDoS attack. This was stated by the Minister of Digital Development and Communications of the region Sergey Tsukar at an operational meeting with Governor Andrey Travnikov, informs Telegram channel of the regional administration.
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According to him, the attack power reached 10-12 Gbps. Now the situation has stabilized, however, short-term malfunctions may still occur in the work of the Medical Information System and call center 122 (its specialists advise citizens on coronavirus), Cucari said. The problem is eliminated by specialists of the regional Ministry of Digital Development.
The attack was noticed at 08:15 local time (04:15 Moscow time), he said. “This is complicated by the fact that Monday morning is the peak time for loading. The information was brought to the attention of the authorized bodies, filtering was carried out, now it continues in waves,” leads his NGS words.