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Hong Kong online gaming sites targeted by DDOS attack

Last month reportedly saw a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack hit the operations of some 29 online gaming sites based in Hong Kong with most of the disruptive traffic found to be originating just over the border in China.

According to a report from the International Business Times newspaper, the two-week DDOS action, which began from April 6, had been designed to take the sites offline and was first spotted by American cyber security firm Arbor Networks Incorporated after Hong Kong was found to be receiving some 28% of the world’s total attacks greater than ten billion bit…