- The finance ministry and president's office were targeted from computers in the US, Brazil, Germany, Romania, UK, and France, Patricio Real, Ecuador's deputy minister for information told AFP.
- The WikiLeaks founder was arrested at Ecuador's London embassy last Thursday by UK police, ending his near seven-year self-imposed exile in the building.
- Assange, 47, now faces extradition to the US to face a government hacking charge, or to Sweden to face allegations of rape. He also faces up to a year in British jail for skipping bail.
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Ecuador says it has been hit with 40 million cyber attacks since Julian Assange was arrested at its embassy in London
Ecuador says it was targeted with more than 40 million cyber attacks from "groups linked to Julian Assange" in the five days since they revoked his asylum and allowed his arrest by UK authorities.
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Ecuador says it has weathered over 40 million cyber attacks since Julian Assange was arrested five days ago.
Ecuador's president Lenin Moreno stripped Assange of asylum status on Thursday, allowing UK police to arrest him at the London embassy he called home for nearly seven years.
Moreno accused Assange of interfering in the "processes of other states" and "spying."
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Since the arrest, a huge number of cyber attacks have been directed at Ecuadorian government websites from groups in support of the WikiLeaks founder, Patricio Real, the country's deputy minister for information and communication technologies told AFP .
The vast majority came from the US, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the UK, he said.
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Javier Jara, undersecretary of the electronic government department of the telecommunications ministry, told AFP the attacks were "volumetric."
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Volumetric attacks are cyber attacks which send a enormous amount of traffic to a single server to try to overwhelm its bandwidth, and render it useless.
Police bundle WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy into a police van in London after he was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum. (@DailyDOOH via AP)
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Jara said the attacks were "threats from those groups linked to Julian Assange."
Jara noted the main targets were Ecuador's foreign ministry, its central bank, and the president's office.
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Assange currently held at Belmarsh Prison in London now faces extradition to the US to face one charge of hacking a government computer , or to Sweden to face two cases of sexual misconduct .
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