Information Security Status Report -- Attacks Targeting Hong Kong (2014-10-09)

Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT), which is operated by the Hong Kong Productivity Council, alerts the public to be vigilant to cyber attacks targeting their IT infrastructure.

Since Oct 2, HKCERT has been monitoring the cyber attacks targeting Hong Kong. They are in form of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and web defacement attacks. This is the status report as at 5:00pm today Oct 9, 2014.

No more non-government websites was defaced in the past day, making up to a total of 38 non-government defaced websites. 3 of them have not been recovered.

One more non-government websites were impacted by DDoS attacks today, making up a total of 17 non-government websites being DDoS victims. All of them are accessible during checking.

While HKCERT will not disclose details of the victimized websites, we are working closely with the Office of Government Chief Information Officer, Hong Kong Police and other relevant parties to tackle these threats.

If you have security incident report or enquiry, please contact HKCERT Hotline: +852 8105-6060 or Email [email protected]