Taiwanese President and govt sites disrupted as Pelosi begins visit

As US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began her visit to Taiwan, the Taiwanese websites were hit with a series of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks).

While it is not yet clear who was behind the attacks, experts say that they could be the work of Chinese hackers.

Among the affected websites are the official website of the president of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, the website of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the website of Taiwan Taoyuan International, the country’s largest airport, and the National Defense Ministry, etc.

According to the Presidential Palace spokesperson Chang Tun-Han on Facebook, the DDoS attack on the President’s website lasted for about 20 minutes.

However, at the time of publishing this article, other than the website of the Ministry of National Defense, all known targeted sites were back online.

In the same time, BlackCat claimed a successful cyberattack against Creos Luxembourg S.A. last week, a natural gas pipeline and electricity network operator in the central European country.