DDoS attack at Times of Malta

December 18, 2024

INCIDENT

Cybercriminals targeted the Times of Malta website on Tuesday morning. Servers were flooded with millions of requests, but no data breach suspected. No source has been identified in the attack.

“The attack lasted several hours but thanks to our tech team’s work to mitigate it, end users were only impacted for a brief period,” Times of Malta online editor Bertrand Borg said.

Incident Date

February 6, 2024

Location

Malta

Estimated Cost


No cost values disclosed.

Type of Malware

Threat Source

No threat source identified