MOSCOW, June 4 – RIA Novosti. TV Channel Russia Today RT.com on Tuesday night suffered DDoS-attack, told television station in his microblog on Twitter.
According to the report, hackers were also subjected to other sites Russia Today, including actualidad.rt.com, arabic.rt.com and russian.rt.com. The representatives assured the channel that the attack did not affect the transmission of news about the progress of the trial of the website Wikileaks informant Bradley Manning, as well as protests in Turkey.
responsibility for the attack took the representatives of the anonymous hacker group AntiLeaks, which previously undertook DDoS-attacks on the website Russia Today. “Yes, we are responsible for the attack on RT.com”, – wrote the hackers AntiLeaks in his microblog on Twitter.
On Monday, it was reported that the first TV channel Russia Today TV news from the world crossed the mark of 1 billion views on YouTube.
© Photo: Channel RT
channel RT
In mid-August of last year’s TV channel Russia Today has been unavailable for several hours due to the powerful DDoS-attacks, presumably, also organized by the hacker group AntiLeaks. His attackers then action motivated by the fact that the channel has given a platform for speeches Julian Assange, founder and ideologist of the website Wikileaks, which specializes in the publication of secret documents of various countries. Hackers believe Wikileaks destructive activities and try to stop her.
DDoS-attack carried out by a plurality of computers infected by an attacker who send requests to the specified address on the Internet, which leads to overload and, in some cases, the unavailability of a resource.
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