Russian Nat'l Guard Says Website Comes Under Mass DDoS Attack

The Russian National Guard service's website has come under a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the National Guard said Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The National Guard said the cyberattack took place at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday.

"Rosgvardia's main communication department experts have established that the site has undergone a massive DDoS attack from multiple network requests," it said.

The National Guard said it is conducting countermeasures to thwart the attacks and restore the website's operability.

A DDoS-attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources.