I called it from day one. The minute Russia goes to war, they are going to engage in cyberwarfare tactics. They have executed DDOS attacks against Georgian infrastructure, news networks, and any source that georgians could use to communicate military instruction, pleas for help, or update news agencies by anything other than traditional (generally non-actionable) means. It makes me wonder why the hell NATO is allowing a sovereign nation to be invaded without provocation, without excuse. You’ll notice that traffic is being cut off in turkey, as well as traffic being manipulated by Bryansk , Russia. The network security community needs to draw up an Internet warfare charter to be issued to the UN for introduction. Because, as the Internet is a international community, it needs to be treated as neutral wargrounds.As an exception,however, allow nations engaged in bilateral warfare to attack designated targets of the opposing side so that collateral damage is not done- and the free flow of unrestricted information is not impeded.
From the Georgian Embassy, An official Release:
For confirmation and current status of the cyberwar:
Example – Nameservers for www.itdc.ge Georgia’s web development enterprise are continuously showing : * ns1.garse.net returned (SERVFAIL) * ns2.garse.net returned (SERVFAIL)
Two traceroutes to web site mfa.gov.ge – Georgia Foreign Affairs – show:
(a) From US – Ge = Blocked via TTnet Turkey
(b) From Ukraine – Ge = available & slow; note; cached (forged page),now only via redirect through Bryansk Ru
Other Georgia government websites e.g. mod.gov.ge (Ministry of Defense) – president.gov.ge show:
(c) From US – Ge = Blocked via TTnet Turkey
(d) From Ukraine – Ge = Blocked via TTnet Turkey
Internally – several Georgia based servers now only under external routing control e.g. AS28751 CAUCASUS NET AS Caucasus Network Tbilisi, Georgia & AS20771 DeltaNet Autonomous System DeltaNet ltd 0179 Tbilisi Georgia
Now only available via AS12389 ROSTELECOM AS JSC Rostelecom (Ru) and AS8342 RTCOMM AS RTComm RU Autonomous System (Ru) – servers – Georgia traffic through Deltanet being redirected via TTnet
