DDoS Attack on Russian Telecom Beeline Causes Outages
Some Russians had their internet disrupted on Monday due to a targeted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the telecom Beeline — the second major attack on the Moscow-based company in recent weeks. Beeline confirmed the attack to local media following reports from several outage-tracking services and user complaints. The provider has more than 44 million subscribers.
Data from the internet monitoring service Downdetector indicates that most Beeline users in Russia faced difficulties accessing the company’s mobile app, while some also reported website outages, notification failures and internet disruptions.
Russia’s communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, reported that subscribers in Moscow and surrounding regions had filed mass complaints over connectivity issues following Monday’s incident.