"Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack"

Georgia, a small country at the intersection of Europe and Asia, was hit with a cyberattack that has taken down 2,000 websites and a national TV station. The coordinated attack resulted in the defacement of websites, replacing functional pages with an image of the former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili. A local web-hosting provider, named Pro-Service, claimed to be responsible for this incident as one of its servers that run websites for state agencies, the private sector, and media organizations, was compromised. This article continues to discuss the cyberattack on the eastern European nation of Georgia in regard to how it took place, how Pro-Service responded to this incident, the possible motivation behind the attack, and the potential impact such attacks can have globally.

Threatpost reports "Country of Georgia Suffers Widespread Cyberattack"