Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov told TASS that the amount of cyber-attacks on the Kremlin website has increased.
When Peskov was questioned if there was a possibility of finding out if it could in fact be a technical difficulty in the operation of the websites of the Kremlin and other state agencies, he replied saying “There were no difficulties. Everything was working fine for me.”
At the same time, he confirmed that the number of attacks on the Kremlin website had increased lately.
“Yes, it grows all the time. We have mirrors activating there, there were a couple of DDoS attacks, the ones that cannot be carried out in Russia, no one is even capable of it here,” Peskov stressed.
On March 10, representatives from the Kremlin were unable to confirm that websites of Russia’s state agencies were experiencing malfunctions but acknowledged that it was possible. He decided to check reporters’ claims that the Kremlin website could not be accessed at the time of his briefing. “No, I can open everything. I am checking the government [website] now, I am at the computer. No, everything works,” he said. “I just tried it, and everything works for me.”
Earlier on, reports appeared that a number of websites of Russian State Ministries and agencies were down. TASS correspondents in particular, checked that the websites of the government Kremlin, Investigative Committee, media watchdog, Economic Development Ministry, Security Council and Industry and Trade Ministry. Furthermore, faults were also recorded on the State Duma (lower house of parliament) and the Interior Ministry websites, but were resolved later.
