Hackers attacked online retailers for product catalogs

On New Year's Eve, some large Russian marketplaces and online retailers faced powerful attacks by bots-parsers. Anton Chemiakin, head of the analytical department of Servicepipe (specializing in information security and protection of online resources from DDoS, bots and targeted attacks), told Izvestia about this.

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According to him, the frequency of requests from individual players reached 750 thousand requests per minute, which is quite significant for a botnet aiming to obtain information rather than to crash the service.

"The attackers were interested in catalogs and prices of e-com players, which are well protected from such attacks, so the attackers used the holiday to launch the attack. The botmasters hoped that DDoS and bot attack defenders would only start fighting their malicious activity after the holidays, but they miscalculated," he explained.

Politically motivated hackers, as Anton Chemyakin noted, also decided to take advantage of the New Year holidays and attacked one of the players providing online cash register services on January 1. However, in this case the attack was repelled.

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