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Information Security Status Report -- Attacks Targeting Hong Kong (2014-10-22)

Release Date: 22 Oct 2014 1470 Views

Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT), which is operated by the Hong Kong Productivity Council, alerts the public to be vigilant to cyber attacks targeting their IT infrastructure.

Since Oct 2, HKCERT has been monitoring the cyber attacks targeting Hong Kong. They are in form of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and web defacement attacks. This is the status report as at 5:00pm today Oct 22, 2014.

No new non-government websites was defaced in the past day, making up to a total of 38 non-government defaced websites. All of them have been recovered.

No new non-government websites were impacted by DDoS attacks, making up a total of 23 non-government websites being DDoS victims. All websites are running normally now.

While HKCERT will not disclose details of the victimized websites, we are working closely with the Office of Government Chief Information Officer, Hong Kong Police and other relevant parties to tackle these threats.

If you have security incident report or enquiry, please contact HKCERT Hotline: +852 8105-6060 or Email [email protected]