Phnom Penh (FN), Nov. 6 - Some of Cambodia's major internet service providers (ISPs), including EZECOM, SI Net, Digi, and others have encountered Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), causing internet speed to decrease sharply.

EZECOM issued a notice on Tuesday that the company is facing DDoS twice yesterday and today and that are two of the biggest attacks in Cambodia's history, even the advanced DDoS Protection Authority could not handle.

EZECOM said that the technical working group and its overseas partners have been active to ease the situation and that the issue will be tackled within one or two working days if there is no further attacks.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Khov Makara said Tuesday that the ministry had received information on the DDoS attack over the weekend and sent officials of the Information Security Department to work with the ISPs in Cambodia to tackle the issue.

The spokesman explained that DDoS is an attack on data traffic not espionage.

Distributed Denial of Service, short for DDoS, is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often infected with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
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