Brazilian government IT provider Serpro faces record DDoS attacks
Brazilian government IT provider Serpro has experienced record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months, including an attack on an unprecedented scale in early November. Serpro said Gov.br continued to operate, with no disruption or compromise. No causal link has been confirmed between the attacks and authentication failures reported on some government services over the same period.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Serpro
- Incident type
- DDoS
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Distributed denial-of-service attacks
- Location
- Brazil
Timeline
- Serpro said it had experienced record DDoS attacks over the past six months and that Gov.br continued to operate.
- Serpro also reported an unprecedented attack in early November and said Gov.br had experienced no disruption or compromise.
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