China has recently suffered an interruption in the Internet and experts believe the cause may have been a cyberattack.
During the shutdown, users were redirected to a website Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), which provides anti-censorship services, specially designed for China.
The company is also affiliated with the Falun Gong group , a spiritual group that has been accused of cyberattacks in the past.
Representatives of China's Internet Network Information Center said the outage was caused by a malfunction in the top-level domain name root servers.
Chinese security experts told the Xinhua news agency that the incident could be the result of a piracy.
The founder of DIT, Mr. Bill Xia, said at the Reuters agency that the Chinese government may have misused the Internet censorship system and blocked all websites, not just those it normally bans. However, as he mentioned, the DNS may have been violated, since even if the users tried to visit sites that do not exist, they were redirected to the website of his organization. He denies that the Falun Gong hackers were responsible for the crash, and does not know why they redirected users to his company website.
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