The Russian religious search engine Rublev was disrupted by a DDoSfor about five hours after it went live to the general public. The search engine, the brainchild of Yuri Grymov, a Russian filmmaker, spent two years building it before it officially went online last Tuesday.
The purpose of this search engine is to provide Russian Orthodox Christian news and interviews with religious leaders, as well as provide social networking, offering users the functionality of social media.
The website can be used to search for prayers, icons, churches and monasteries, to pose questions to priests, to upload videos and images, or to look for information about holidays and saints.
All queries are filtered to avoid returning offensive results, and therefore many of the searches that return a large number of results in classic search engines do not bring any answer to Rublev. Currently, however, it only accepts searches in Russian, and there is no information about whether more languages will be added.
The founder of the search engine, Rublev, reported in his post last Thursday that almost all services of the website have returned, except for some services and tools that are not functioning at the moment.
Regarding the attack, there is no information about the identity of those who may have carried it out, and it is quite unlikely they will be discovered, since DDoS attacks are carried out through a number of systems.
The scammers of the internet have created special services for this type of attacks, where for a small fee anyone can launch an attack on a website and take it offline. In fact, for an octa‑hour attack, the price is about €136.
