Congress briefly DDOS’ed, is this the beginning of what could come?

For the last several months, I’ve been tlking about my thoughts on what might happen if Russia ended up getting their way.

Remember that I’m not educated on what is going on, but based on reading and past history do I have an understanding.

I never said exactly when this would take place, nor did I insinuate that it would happen on a certain date or timeline of dates.

I feel that after this article was published via Cyberscoop that this may be the beginning.

Remember that the Library of Congress sites, including the BARD service a lot of my readers may use, are funded by Congress and sponsored by it as well. That is how we use it for free.

With that said, the main congress.gov was briefly taken offline by a DDOS attack and this article called Pro-Russian cybercriminals briefly DDoS Congress.gov has the complete details.

As far as I can tell by reading the published article, no customer or other data was ever accessed, only enough traffic to take the site down was done.

If Russia or any of its dependencies can do this, and this is the first confirmed attack against a site like congress.gov since the war, than the possibility is there that they’re working to figure out how to take it down longer.

After that, they’ll start moving through networks to figure out how they run and then take down those networks as well.

I could be completely wrong, and that’s fine, but this is a hunch I have, based on past activities and behaviors from the country.

A pro-Russian cybercrime group attacked the Congress.gov web domain Thursday, resulting in temporary down time that “briefly affected public access,” the Library of Congress told CyberScoop Friday.

The group’s name is Killnet, which has launched several different DDOS attacks on several targets. You may have heard of them through Cyberscoop, Podcasts like Security Now, or even podcasts like Cyberwire Daily.

No matter where you heard of this group, they may have the capability to finally do what was predicted and feared within circles, and that is … take down major infrastructure including but not limited to ISP, power and water.

“They have money for weapons for the whole world, but not for their own defense,” the group wrote in a message on its Telegram channel, according to a Google translation.

How did they get that? Through all of the groups who ran … ransomware attacks. Without those payments, groups like this couldn’t continue to run or change branding as discussed in many podcasts including mine.

“The Library of Congress used existing measures to address the attack quickly, resulting in minimal down time,” the spokesperson said. “The Library’s network was not compromised and no data was lost as a result of the attack.”

We know that this group has attacked an airport. in Connecticut and that’s linked within this article. There’s more, including more linked material so make sure you read the full article if this interests you in any way.

We’ll say this here, and we’ll say it often. We don’t know what is going to happen. We can only estimate and predict, based on other factors. I’d love to be proven wrong.