At least four major websites, Ghanaweb.com, Peacefmonline.com, Myjoyononline.com and Adomonline.com have come under attack in the last three weeks. Hackers have targeted major Ghanaian news websites, as the coalition of media houses intensifies a campaign, for the ban of illegal mining commonly referred to as galamsey [gather and sell] in Ghana. The Daily Graphic has gathered that the attacks mainly originated from hackers in China and that they were in the nature of distributed denial of service (DDoS). The hackers normally flood the targets with millions of messages, connection requests or malformed packets. When this happens, legitimate users are unable to visit the target website.

Source: GhanaWeb May 01, 2017 08:37 UTC