Cyxymu is “George” from Tbilisi

CNN has made the first move towards understanding why Cyxymu (his Twitter username) was the target of the recent DDoS attack on major sites like Livejournal, Twitter and Facebook.

Cyxymu has identified himself as George, a 34 year old residing in Tbilisi, Georgia. George told CNN that his Livejournal blog posts might have “irritated” someone enough to incite a DDoS attack.

His recent posts include: “How Russia was preparing military agression (sic) against Georgia, how they were training soldiers and mobilizing military equipment, what kind of provocations were carried out by the separatists prior to the war.”

“Seems somebody did not like such a chronicle of events,” he told CNN.

“I was also writing about all reforms implemented in Georgia in recent times so that all people outside Georgia could have proper information.” He said the main purpose of his blogs was to promote the resumption of relations between the Abkhazian and Georgian people.

I assume the above-mentioned could irritate those who are the authors of the given cyber attack and who will never accept the idea of the United, independent, democratic and prosperous Georgia,” he said.

Reason for the attacks is now known with George identified as the target. The waves of spam experienced on Twitter before the actual DDoS attack were also part of the plot to prevent George’s materials to be posted. They were sent out under his name, all directing to his web pages to make him appear as a source of spam; ruining his reputation.

Both Twitter and Facebook are slowly recovering from the attack. The only missing jigsaw piece left to be found is the answer to “who was behind all these?”. With Google leading the search, let’s hope that the culprit would soon be apprehended.

Read more on our full coverage of the DDoS Attack.

Source CNN