MANILA, Philippines — “Impunity will be the legacy of President (Rodrigo) Duterte.”Thus, was the declaration of human rights advocates who hacked the government’s online portal Wednesday as a form of protest against the purported “worsening human rights situation in the Philippines.”ADVERTISEMENTCyber PH for Human Rights said they would hold their cyberattack on PH.gov for a full 24 hours or until 4:00 p.m. of March 11. “We intend to continue the cyberattack until 4 p.m., 11 March 2020, a full twenty-four hours of protest against the worsening human rights situation in the Philippines,” Cyber PH for Human Rights said in a statement Thursday. “Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has made remarks today that impunity has no place in the Duterte administration, but for as long as the President Rodrigo’s top henchmen […] continue their bloody full-court press against unarmed civilians in the guise of search warrant implementation, impunity will be the legacy of President Duterte,” it also said. Earlier, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confirmed a cyberattack has crippled the national government’s main website. According to Cyber PH for Human Rights, the takedown was initiated through a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack – the same attack that affected Amazon Web Services in 2019.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 11, 2021 11:53 UTC