A professional-Russian state hacker group claimed accountability for widespread outages of Kentucky’s authorities web sites Wednesday.
A number of Kentucky state web sites have been unavailable Wednesday, greeting customers as a substitute with a 503 error, an indication that the web site can not talk with the server it depends on. Different states noticed related web site outages, together with Colorado and Mississippi.
The professional-Kremlin hacker group Killnet claimed accountability for the outages in a Wednesday morning put up on the social media platform Telegram, as beforehand reported by CNN.
The group’s Telegram put up is titled “USA OFFLINE,” together with “F*ck NATO.” In Russian, the put up lists a dozen states the group claims to have focused, together with Kentucky.
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“Kentucky (breakdown of all on-line companies),” the put up reads.
In Kentucky, downed web sites ranged from the Kentucky Board of Elections webpage to the Kentucky Division of Schooling web site. Most have been restored by the top of the day. Web sites for Kentucky’s state courts have been down a part of Thursday as properly.
503 errors might be indicators of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault. DDoS assaults flood a web site’s server with requests, overloading the server and blocking entry for respectable customers. Nevertheless, 503 errors additionally present up when tech points are afoot or throughout scheduled upkeep.
In a press release emailed Wednesday, Kentucky Interactive Common Supervisor Carlos Luna instructed WFPL that state web sites have been “experiencing irregular site visitors, leading to intermittent interruptions.”
“We proceed to analyze and are working with the commonwealth to mitigate the difficulty,” Luna mentioned within the assertion, supplied by a spokesperson.
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Kentucky Interactive is a non-public firm that runs the state’s on-line companies.
A supply within the FBI confirmed to WFPL the company is investigating however was not approved to supply remark.
Killnet has taken accountability for different cyberattacks in a number of international locations it perceives as hostile to Russian President Vladimir Putin, together with Japan, Estonia, and Latvia.
Based on the Amsterdam-based cybersecurity agency EclecticIQ, Killnet hackers are “novice customers with zero or restricted expertise,” and injury from Killnet assaults is often momentary.
“Killnet possesses the sources to efficiently conduct short-lived Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assaults however lacks the capabilities to execute assaults that impair community infrastructure for an extended interval,” reads a weblog put up by EclecticIQ workers.
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A Kentucky Interactive spokesperson mentioned the group would supply extra data on the outages Thursday afternoon.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Mark Stoops owns a five-game winning streak in the Governor’s Cup series. The Wildcats have won three games in a row at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium and have not lost to Louisville at Kroger Field since 2017 when Bobby Petrino was holding the call sheet and and Lamar Jackson was playing quarterback. The Wildcats have also covered a lot of spreads in this series.
Stoops is 7-2-1 against-the-spread (ATS) in this series with with covers as a double-digit dog in 2014 and 2016. Kentucky has beaten Louisville outright as a dog three times since 2016 and has covered five straight in this series. Those are not the only trends going in Kentucky’s direction heading into this Week 14 contest.
Louisville is 0-4-1 ATS as a road favorite under Jeff Brohm with outright losses to Pittsburgh and Stanford. Kentucky is 5-0-1 ATS as a dog in its last six outing including four games this season. Kentucky covered numbers as a double-digit dog against Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas this season.
The visitor is 11-3-1 ATS (5-10 outright) in the last 14 meetings of this series with 10 outright wins but Kentucky has won the last two meetings at Kroger Field covering each times as a three-point favorite. In 2019, Kentucky ran away for a 45-13 victory and cruised to a 26-13 victory in 2022.
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Kentucky has consistently overachieved pregame expectations in this series. The Wildcats are currently a 3.5-point dog with a total of 48.5. That’s a projected final score of 26-22.5. Will UK exceed expectations again against Louisville? A win would equal four outright upsets for the Big Blue in the last eight meetings of the series.
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