Massive cyber attack on website of Russian Embassy, UK

A massive cyberattack was launched against the website of the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, the embassy announced on its verified Twitter account. The tweet read, "Dear guests, Our website https://rusemb.org.uk went offline due to massive DDoS attack, but is available again. We apologize for any inconvenience caused."

Dear guests,Our website https://t.co/hkJPTOcRcd went offline due to massive DDoS attack, but is available again. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. pic.twitter.com/w3nrwnruir

— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) August 20, 2019

The website's operation was disrupted by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on August 19 at around 16:30 (local time). After a large-scale block, the website resumed its operation only by 12:00 (local time) on August 20. According to reports, the incident is being investigated now.