Senate, Gordon websites cyberattacked amid Pharmally probeSen. Richard Gordon is seen in a virtual Senate session on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021 as he maintains that blue ribbon committee investigations into perceived anomalies in government's pandemic procurement will continue. DDoS attacks are perpetrated to disrupt a website or network's usual online activities by flooding it with traffic requests. legacy.senate.gov.ph Screengrab taken on October 6, 2021, shows inaccessible Senate website. Sen. Richard Gordon's office says there was a "coordinated online attack" on his website Monday, causing it to shut down for hours. READ: ‘Shortcut’: Senators call out incomplete, anomalous Pharmally procurement papersThe official in question, Lloyd Christopher Lao, former PS-DBM officer-in-charge, worked as Duterte's election lawyer before he entered public service.

Source: Philippine Star October 06, 2021 10:18 UTC