Vietnam Hacker forum was paralyzed

According to the announcement from the Vietnam Hacker Forum (HVA), during the first half of June, the forum was attacked twice by hackers with a denial of service.

Specifically, on June 5, about 1 hour and 35 minutes, the HVA forum, at http://www.hvaonline.net has a problem on the hard disk and also during this time, the forum suffers a DDoS amount. Great (denial of service attack) entered, completely saturating the line to the HVA server.

According to the service provider, the hacker attacks to completely saturate the line to the HVA server. The security system of the provider automatically disconnects and blocks all traffic to HVA's server so no one can enter the forum.

In addition, most of the attack addresses are sourced from abroad, and in the horde of ghost computers (botnets) have the address of Vietnam.

This proves that many Vietnamese machines have been infected with viruses and have become zombies [secret program controlling a computer connected to the internet, then use this computer to attack -pv] for the computer network. abroad.

By about 23 hours on June 12, HVA had to continue to catch a DDoS attack with great intensity. Automated service provider prevents full access to HVA access. Therefore, from about 23 pm 12 to about 4 am 13/6, all access to the forum is not possible.

'The technical team is studying load balancing measures to minimize this situation,' said the HVA.

Talking to Vietnam + reporter on June 15, Mr. Vo Do Thang, Director of Network Management and Network Security Training Center Athena, said this is a frequent attack by hackers into forums.

Mr. Thang also said that Athena's network security forum http://athena.com.vn daily has thousands of attacks from addresses all over the world.

' Offensive activity is quite routine on cyberspace, so network security experts need to regularly check the system to detect timely attacks to prevent ,' Thang said. .