Security News > 2020 > March > US Health and Human Services targeted by DDoS scum at just the time it's needed to be up and running

In an impeccable instance of horrible timing, the US government's Department of Health and Human Services says it fended off a cyberattack by online scumbags.

The attack - presumably not a load of citizens hitting Uncle Sam's web servers looking for information - did not, we're told, have had any serious impact on operations, but with American's desperate for information about the coronavirus pandemic, the attempted takedown came at the worst possible time.

"HHS has an IT infrastructure with risk-based security controls continuously monitored in order to detect and address cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities," a spokesperson for the department told The Register.

"Early on while preparing and responding to COVID-19, HHS put extra protections in place," El Reg was told.

At the time of writing, the HHS website remained fully operational.

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