The attack directed at a few sites – Swedish Dagbladet

IT Security Section of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), which on its website has published a first report.

A botnets is a collection of virus-infected computers without the owners’ knowledge can be used to such as denial of service attacks.

to other media companies and organizations other than the sites that were targeted were hit due according to the MSB on the same infrastructure.

overload the attacks were also of what can be considered “normal “scope. Technically sent data traffic for 50 Gigabit per second during the first attack, said MSB. Most of the attack was a “Christmas attack,” which simply put means extra load.

On Tuesday subjected Dagens Industri, a new denial of service.

– We have solved it so that we can keep reading on and we can publish but there are some features that we have been shut down, says Jonas Jonsson, managing editor of the newspaper.

HH: How do you know that there is another denial of service attack?

– we know. I can not go into any further details, but we know it.