Report issued on attacks against gambling Web sites
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More has been learned on the attacks that have plagued gambling and poker Web sites – among them Full Tilt Poker — this week.
A Web site called shadowserver.org, which tracks hacker activity globally, said the Distributed Denial of Service attacks are being caused by a network of hacker compromised computers. The report from the group said many gambling sites were affected, and their own site was a victim as well.
According to a UPI story published at majorwager.com:
The report listed more than 30 gambling sites attacked in the past week, the majority with Russian Internet addresses, but also including U.S. companies and one British site.
“Some were attacked for a few hours and others for a few days. … The desired result of the attacker is to completely disrupt service to the Web site,” reads the report. It noted that several of the sites being attacked were “fully unavailable for the last few hours.”
News and discussion sites for online gamblers noted that several poker sites were hard or impossible to access at various times over the past few days.
No motive for the attacks has been discovered yet.
