STF, Anatel and PF face cyberattacks after blocking X (Twitter) in Brazil

The Federal Supreme Court (STF), the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and the Federal Police (PF) were subjected to cyberattacks following the court’s decision to block X in Brazil. S. Paulo’s sheet. Minister Alexandre de Moraes’ family law firm also targeted.

As the newspaper explained last Tuesday (03), the technique used by the authors is believed to be a denial of service attack (DDoS). Thousands of simultaneous accesses to websites and serversDue to excessive traffic, affected systems may become unstable and unusable.

The attacks on the STF took place on Friday (30) after it was determined that the former Twitter had appointed a legal representative in Brazil. leaving systems offline for 10 minutesAnatel experienced problems the same day, reporting “momentary instabilities” in its systems and networks.

Cyber ​​attacks targeting the PF occurred yesterday (3). Online services may be down for a few minutes, including customer service interruptionsOn the same date, the website of Barci de Moraes’ office was also affected by the malicious campaign and remained unavailable for several hours.

No big loss

In all these cases of cyberattacks related to the blocking of X in Brazil, measures were taken to mitigate the effects and restore the normal functioning of the systems. None of them had data leaks initiallyProblems are limited to the momentary unavailability of online services.

Based on the reports, the Corporate Security Office (GSI) has published a statement informing government administrators about DDoS attacks and providing recommendations for preventing such actions. The body’s recommendation is that they The Singapore Cyber ​​Agency was consulted and its practices were followed.

The incidents are being investigated and There are currently no details on who carried out the cyberattacks..