Cuba
CUB
Cubadebate hit by DDoS; bandwidth saturated and mirrors denied service
Cubadebate reported that on 15/07/2021 it suffered a DDoS attack against its international mirrors between 09:53 and 10:23 local time, generating around 580,000 fake requests in 30 minutes that saturated bandwidth and reduced server responsiveness, triggering denial of service on its international mirrors. Cubadebate later stated that its main site and subdomains continued to receive intense DDoS between Thursday and Friday, saturating bandwidth and compromising the functioning of its servers, with 3.5 million attacker accesses recorded.
30
Estimated severity
30 / 100
90
Source reliability
90 / 100
Approximate Date
15/07/2021
Targeted Company
CUBADEBATE
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
Cuba
Affected countries
Cuba
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
No information
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Service degradationService unavailability
Affected sectors
Media & Entertainment
Affected departments
Information Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of service
Attributed threat actors
No information
Sources
Incident Sources
cubadebate.cuhttp://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2021/07/15/cubadebate-recibe-ataque-cibernetico-originado-fundamentalmente-en-estados-unidosfacebook.comhttps://www.facebook.com/cubadebate/posts/%EF%B8%8F-el-portal-digital-cubadebate-con-su-sitio-principal-y-sus-subdominios-ha-conti/10158822044228515facebook.comhttps://www.facebook.com/cubadebate/posts/%EF%B8%8Fdenunciamos-que-en-la-ma%C3%B1ana-de-hoy-cubadebate-recibi%C3%B3-un-ataque-cibern%C3%A9tico-de/10158818407193515granma.cuhttps://www.granma.cu/cuba/2021-07-17/cuba-bajo-el-fuego-de-un-ataque-cibernetico-contra-sitios-institucionales-y-medios-de-prensa-videotrabajadores.cuhttps://www.trabajadores.cu/20210715/cubadebate-recibe-ataque-cibernetico-originado-fundamentalmente-en-eeuu