| Submit your comments on this article |
| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Unprecedented cyberattack. Ukraine is DDOSed again |
| 2022-02-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Korrespondent] Law enforcement officials say that the cyber attack is very powerful, it has never happened before. In the West, Ukraine has been warned of a Russian offensive since 16 February. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that Russian aggression could begin, including with a cyber attack. And on Tuesday, February 15, the websites of Ukrainian banks and ministries experienced an unprecedented cyber attack. PRIVAT AND OSCHAD Currently, it is known about the attack on Privatbank and Oschadbank, as well as on the Ministry of Defense and the website of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Users report that some do not have Internet banking, others can log in, but cannot conduct transactions. PrivatBank later stated that the bank managed to eliminate the consequences of the DDOS attack and resume the stable operation of the systems. Services were down for one hour. At the same time, the traffic was intense, so this created additional complications with access to services. "We inform you that we managed to eliminate the consequences of the DDOS attack and resume the stable operation of the systems," Privat said. At the same time, users continue to complain about access problems. "We mean that there is a possibility of further attacks, so our IT team is doing everything possible to counter them properly," the state bank concluded. The State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection has confirmed information about a powerful DDOS attack on a number of Ukrainian information resources. The working group is currently taking all necessary measures to counter and localize cyber attacks. ONCE A MONTH On the night of January 14, hackers hacked into several government websites, in particular the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Diya portal, etc., and published their message in three languages ​​- Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. RUSSIAN TRACE The government said the attack was linked to an escalation from Russia. Hacking actions against Ukrainian government agencies can also be part of a psychological attack on Ukrainians. The Russian trace is also indicated by the chronology of the spread of the news. And then it was actively distributed by Russian publications. In particular, one of the first reports about the attack was an article in the Russian pro-government publication RIA around 4 am (Kyiv time). Government experts explained that the use of sensitive topics from the history of Polish-Ukrainian relations was to cover the trail of Russian hackers. However, the text in Polish contains stylistic inaccuracies and lexical errors, which were confirmed to Ukrainian cyber-specialists by Polish colleagues. The center emphasized that the attack on the government portals of Ukraine can be interpreted as one of the examples of Russian aggression against the state of Ukraine. Therefore, the center hopes for an early imposition of sanctions on the Russian structures associated with the attack. |
| Posted by:badanov |