Feb 23, 2022: According to a report by Reuters, the websites of Ukraine’s government, foreign ministry and state security service were down on Wednesday in what the government said was the start of another massive denial of service (DDoS) attack that began at around 4 pm local time.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation, said, “At about 4pm, another mass DDoS attack on our state began. We have relevant data from a number of banks,” saying the parliament website was also effected.
Ukrainian officials say they have seen online warnings this week that hackers are preparing to launch major attacks on government institutions, banks and the defense sector. Ukraine has faced cyber-attacks, which Kyiv has blamed on Russia. Moscow, which is embroiled in a growing conflict with Ukraine over the West, has denied any involvement.
Fedorov did not mention which banks were affected and the central bank could not immediately be reached for comment.
NetBlocks director, Alp Toker told Reuters, “We’ve observed that the current network disruption has partial impact on the network layer to multiple defence and ministerial websites in Ukraine,”
“The spread of outages is similar but distinct from the recent DDOS attack targeting defence and banking platforms, with the latter not impacted in this instance,” he added.
Last week, the online networks of Ukraine’s defence ministry and two banks were overwhelmed last week in a separate cyber attack. The US company Netscout Systems Inc (NTCT.O) later said the impact had been modest.
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