OIC – CERTCyber attacks cases incident is raising rapidly around the world and it is gainingrecognition as a credible threat to economy and security of a nation. Cyber siege onEstonia in May 2007 paralyzed Internet communications targeting the government, banking, media, and police websites for three weeks. Huge economic losses wereincurred as online transactions were disrupted.This fits with the argument of military strategists that physical attack or bombing againstcritical infrastructure would disrupt and cripple an enemies’ capacity to wage war. DuringWorld War II, the Allied Forces applied this theory by destroying critical infrastructuresuch as electrical power, transportation and manufacturing facilities. The same doctrine isnow duplicated through cyber attacks.The cyber siege on Estonia is a prime example of a paralyzing cyber attack. EstonianDefense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo said that "The attacks were aimed at the essentialelectronic infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia. All major commercial banks, telcos,media outlets, and name servers — the phone books of the Internet — felt the impact, andthis affected the majority of the Estonian population. This was the first time that a botnetthreatened the national security of an entire nation."A bot or zombie is a computer that is being infected with malicious software either in theform of virus or Trojan that allows it to be controlled by a cyber criminal. Herds of botare then organized into a botnet that acts in tandem. A classic attack carried out by botnetis to simply overwhelm a web server with high volume of information that will denylegitimate users to access the website.The attack which is termed denial of service had news sites as it early victims. On 28April 2007, the website of Postimees is flooded with 2.3 million page views and crashed20 times. Soon after, cyber attacks also crippled ATMs in the town of Tallinn. The attack escalates into a siege when web site operators around Estonia have to cut internationalconnection to stave off attacks.The incident in Estonia started when the government decided to move a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn. The action offended the Russian government and invited an officialrebuke from Kremlin. It also leads to street riot which kills one and injured 150 others.In the same time, instructions on how to carry out cyber attacks are circulating in Russianon Russian websites. Fueled by nationalistic sentiment, Russian community of hackersmounted the attack on Estonia.The siege is only diffused when US and European experts assisted to identify and block the botnets that are scattered in 128 locations around the world. This highlights the needfor international cooperation in combating cyber attacks due to its borderless nature.