Analysis: The GIDC DDoS Attack & Airport Shutdown
Published on 2023-01-28
## The Incident
January 28, 2023. The entire **Government Integrated Data Centre (GIDC)** went dark. A massive cyberattack took down hundreds of government sites. But the real chaos was at **Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA)**.
The immigration server crashed. International flights were grounded. Passengers were stuck in limbo because officers physically couldn't check visas or process entry logs.
## What Happened?
It wasn't a sophisticated hack; it was a brute force **Distributed Denial of...
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