Pro-Russia hackers claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that briefly interrupted access to a website for US Congress on Thursday night
Access to Congress.gov was intermittently disrupted from around 9 p.m. ET Thursday until the website was restored to normal operation"just after" 11 p.m. ET, April Slayton, director of communications for the Library of Congress, which runs the website, told CNN."The Library of Congress used existing measures to address the attack quickly, resulting in minimal down time," Slayton said in an email.
Read MoreWhile DDoS attacks can have material consequences, such as when customers can't access banking websites, they are sometimes more about making a statement and getting noticed.In the prelude to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, the White House blamed Russian military intelligence for a series of DDoS attacks on Ukrainian government websites.
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