Paralympic Games forced to shut down the system around 7.15 pm to stop the further attack and it took more than 12 hours to revert the normal state.

An Olympics spokesman admitted: “There were some issues that impacted some of our non-critical systems last night for a few hours.“We apologise for the inconvenience caused to all those affected.”

Also, officialssaid “All competitions are running as planned and the systems are working at the expected level. Our technology partners and our experienced team of ICT experts are working to maintain the systems”

A spokesman for the Russian ministry denied the country had anything to do with any attacks.

Notice by Paralympic Games for system outage

Since the Attack motivation and source is unknown, McAfee senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff said, his teams found a new variant of the malicious documents targeting the Winter Games a few days prior to the opening ceremony.

“It is clear attacks are ongoing and are likely to continue throughout the duration of the games. What is yet to be determined is if actors are working simply to gain disruption, or if their motives are greater.”

Also, Security experts have warned that major international events such as the Olympics are major targets for hackers.

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