Influential national security blog Lawfare has been the target of a distributed denial-of-service attack since Wednesday, with attackers amplifying their efforts as security measures are used to stop the traffic barrage. The DDoS attack knocked the site offline intermittently for a few hours on Wednesday, Executive Editor Susan Hennessey estimated, but the malicious traffic stubbornly persisted through Thursday. The attack “increased substantially in response to preliminary defense measures,” Hennessey told CyberScoop in an email Thursday. The website appears to have stabilized, she said, despite the continuous pinging of Lawfare’s site. “Previous attacks have taken us offline for longer period, but we now have more sophisticated defenses in place so size doesn’t necessarily correlate to impact,” said Hennessey, a former attorney in the National Security Agency’s Office of General Counsel. “While large, the attack hasn’t been especially sophisticated in morphing, so our current measures of just blocking the traffic seem to be working,” she added later […]
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