MAP websites targeted by DDOS cyberattack
Rabat – The various websites of the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP) have been the target, since last Monday, of a Deny Service (DDOS) attack, which has caused numerous disruptions making their access difficult.
This serious incident cannot be explained outside of the geopolitical tensions weighing on the region, as evidenced by the intensity of this cyber-attack against a public establishment.
MAP engineers noted an abnormally massive flow which saturated the bandwidth of the Internet links where these sites are hosted, before reporting the incident to MACERT, the Monitoring Center of the General Directorate for Information Systems Security (DGSSI).
Once the attack was noted, MAP engineers set up a crisis unit with their partners to avoid total unavailability of the websites and to strengthen security at the level of the security devices put in place to deal with disruptions that may occur.
A denial of service attack is a computer attack intended to make a service unavailable and prevent legitimate users of a service from using it.
2024-08-25 18:42:35