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Cuban Foreign Ministry's Website Receives Cyber Attack

  • Cubans demonstrate near Malecon in the capital Havana on July 11 supporting the goverment.

    Cubans demonstrate near Malecon in the capital Havana on July 11 supporting the goverment. | Photo: Twitter/@BrunoRguezP

Published 16 July 2021
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According to the authorities IP addresses from the United States, United Kingdom, France and Turkey attacked the servers from July 11, the institution denounced via Twitter.

The Cuban Foreign Minister reported on Friday a cyber attack on its servers and website amid a media campaign to destabilize and discredit the government following the July 11 street riots.

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According to the authorities IP addresses from the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Turkey attacked the servers from July 11, the institution was denounced via Twitter.

"We denounce that the website of our Foreign Ministry has received a denial of services (DDoS) cyberattack since July 11, 2021. This attack generated false accesses in large numbers, compromising our servers."

"These actions are part of the cyber and communication war that is generated against Cuba," the Foreign Minister said, explaining that "the main IP addresses that generated false accesses in large numbers and tried to crash our servers are geolocated in the United States."

Moreover, the minister's website was hit by 580,000 entries in at least 30 minutes from 9:53 am to 10:23 am local time. The attacks surpassed by far the total number of visits to the website daily and temporarily collapsed its services.

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