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Massive cyber-attacks on human rights website

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Dissent

Peter Westmore reports:

One of the world’s leading human rights groups, Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), has reported that it has been subject to “repeated and sophisticated” cyber-attacks on its web site. The group has traced the attacks back to Russia and China, which have been the subject of repeated criticism over human rights violations.

[…]

The consultant continued: “As our System Administrator was monitoring the server, he noticed that the hacker(s) successfully placed a script in a file on our website. That file was requested on 10/10 at 22:23 GMT from this allocated unspecified IP address 64.78.39.13 (supposed to be an EU country, but can be from any other country in the world), and the same IP address sent several other POST requests to our server on 10/10 and 10/11 and started sending SPAM from our servers on 10/11 at about 2pm.

“It should be noted that not long after that script was modified, a number of other files on our server were accessed and modified from 37.139.47.122 IP address.… That IP address is allocated to a person in St Petersburg, Russia.

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3 thoughts on “Massive cyber-attacks on human rights website”

  1. just a curious reader says:
    November 9, 2014 at 7:58 am

    what a pile of #$%^& this is!

    firts IP is allocated to US http://whois.domaintools.com/64.78.39.13 – the second could have been compromised from the first one to deceive.

    this is another plausible story to tell depending on ones political believes and who pays them money to tell it….

  2. Dissent says:
    November 9, 2014 at 9:17 am

    Yeah, I was surprised to see them notate it as an EU IP.

    I tend to be skeptical about claims about state-sponsored attacks. I wouldn’t be surprised when they do occur, but it seems like everyone wants to claim they’ve been attacked by China or Russia to make their situation more dramatic or sympathetic.

    All that said, attacking a human rights org. is not cool…

    1. just a curious reader says:
      November 9, 2014 at 8:13 pm

      it is not cool indeed, if really ever happened. based on the incorrect information in the article the credibility of it has been lost…

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