New York Magazine has suffered a likely DDoS attack which knocked the publication offline for several hours. The attacker, who goes by ThreatKing, claims he went after the site because he hates New York However, the timing of the attack with the release of a cover story featuring 35 victims of Bill Cosby certainly raises questions about the motive. Ofer Gayer, Security Researcher, Imperva Incapsula commented on the hacked magzine. Gayer: We believe these attacks were perpetrated by the same cyber vandalism group, Vikingdom, that attacked several US government sites in March of this year.”]
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