Diena Media News sites hit by cyber attack

The websites began to experience disruptions at around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday due to a denial of service attack (DDoS). The situation was stabilized, but a second attack started shortly, Diena Media News director Tadas Širvinskas told BNS.

The websites functioned normally later that evening and no new attacks were recorded on Wednesday.

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The Delfi.lt, 15min.lt, Lzinios.lt news sites came under similar attacks recently.

The Criminal Police Bureau has opened a pre-trial investigation after BNS Lithuania’s system was hacked on April 12 to post a fake news article about US troops in Latvia.

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