"A website dedicated to leaking personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents was reportedly subject to a cyberattack that its founder believes may have originated in Russia. Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, told The Daily Beast that his website, ICE List, came under cyberattack Tuesday evening after the publication reported Skinner planned to release personal information, obtained through a whistleblower, about thousands of employees."
"The attack, known as a Direct Denial of Service, is when a perpetrator seeks to disrupt access to a network or service by flooding it with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload the system. Read more at The Independent. As reported by The Daily Beast, Skinner told the Beast that it was only possible to "speculate" about who might have directed the attack, but a "large amount of traffic on Wednesday had come from Russia, likely from a bot farm hosted there.""
An online site dedicated to publishing personal details of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents was targeted by a cyberattack believed to have foreign origins. Dominick Skinner is a Netherlands-based immigration activist who runs the ICE List website. The site came under a Direct Denial of Service attack Tuesday evening after plans to release personal information obtained through a whistleblower about thousands of employees. A Direct Denial of Service floods a network or service with superfluous requests to overload systems. A large amount of traffic during the incident originated from Russia, likely from a bot farm hosted there.
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