The live-streaming service Bambuser came under a distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attack on Thursday morning, possibly in connection with a user's coverage of the Ecuadorian embassy where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is holed up.
The connection is not certain, but Bambuser's Swedish proprietors say they had received threatening tweets just prior to the attack. Bambuser chief Jonas Vig told ZDNet that the DDoS took the service down for "almost an hour" and made it "hard to reach for another hour".
Vig explained that the tweets Bambuser had received were not of the 'tango down' variety, but they did indicate that "it was someone aiming the attack directly at some specific users of ours".
"We still don't want to speculate who was behind it, but there's some indication it was directly aimed at blocking the streams from the embassy," he added.
"It was quite a serious attack," Vig said. "We consider all DDoSes as serious."
The hacker group called Antileaks has suggested on Twitter that they are responsible for the DDoS.
The connection is not certain, but Bambuser's Swedish proprietors say they had received threatening tweets just prior to the attack. Bambuser chief Jonas Vig told ZDNet that the DDoS took the service down for "almost an hour" and made it "hard to reach for another hour".
Vig explained that the tweets Bambuser had received were not of the 'tango down' variety, but they did indicate that "it was someone aiming the attack directly at some specific users of ours".
"We still don't want to speculate who was behind it, but there's some indication it was directly aimed at blocking the streams from the embassy," he added.
"It was quite a serious attack," Vig said. "We consider all DDoSes as serious."
The hacker group called Antileaks has suggested on Twitter that they are responsible for the DDoS.