Russian Central Bank claims slowdown in operations because of rising DDoS attacks

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has stated that it had detected a slowdown in the Faster Payment The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has stated that it detected a slowdown in its Faster Payment System (FPS) operations as a result of increased distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on telecom providers’ channels. Some operations may take longer or need to be repeated, but this has no impact on the money’s security, according to the CBR.