Why did the servers of the Winter Olympics close?

The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was marked by an online attack on POCOG servers on Friday.

The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Games (POCOG) has confirmed that there has been aggressive cyber behavior that has caused of IPTV TV programs in the Press Center, according to his reports Yonhap News.

Σύμφωνα με τη δημοσίευση, η POCOG δήλωσε ότι οι διακομιστές της χτυπήθηκαν από έναν "άγνωστο εισβολέα" κατά τη of the opening ceremony and that it shut down its servers (and its website) to prevent further damage.servers

The site, which was closed during the opening ceremony held on Friday, was reactivated at 8am local time on Saturday.

At present we do not know details, but its analyst McAfee Advanced Threat Research, Ryan Sherstobitoff reported that the discovered a variant of malicious documents targeting the Winter Games just days before the opening ceremony.

"Το έγγραφο περιείχε τις ίδιες ιδιότητες μετα με αυτές που χρησιμοποιούνται από την GoldDragon και επιδίωκε να αποκτήσει πρόσβαση στα συστήματα που ανήκουν σε οργανισμούς που ασχολούνται με τους χειμερινούς αγώνες", δήλωσε ο Sherstobitoff.

"Είναι σαφές ότι οι επιθέσεις βρίσκονται σε εξέλιξη και είναι πιθανό να συνεχιστούν καθ 'όλη τη διάρκεια των αγώνων. Αυτό που δεν έχει καθοριστεί ακόμη είναι εάν οι που ασχολούνται το κάνουν για φήμη ή εάν τα κίνητρά τους είναι μεγαλύτερα".

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