The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s web site was hit with a DDoS cyber attack Sunday night to take it offline in the middle of the Coronavirus outbreak. The attack appears to have been intended to slow the agency’s systems down, but didn’t do so in any meaningful way. The National Security Council tweeted an alert to ignore text messages spreading “rumors of a national quarantine”” and that there is no national lockdown. Government officials are aware of the attack and assume it was a foreign cyber attack.”
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-health-department-site-hit-with-ddos-cyber-attack/