Cyber ​​Attack on Government Websites and Banks in Ukraine

With the statement he made on the night of February 21 to February 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially declared the “so-called” administrations of the pro-Russian Donetsk and Luhansk Republic separatists in eastern Ukraine. recognition decision announced that he received it; Following this, the Russian army entered Ukraine.

direct to mind “3. Is World War Coming?” After this critical development, which brought the question of, many countries made a statement that Russia’s decision was unacceptable, while men between the ages of 18-60 in Ukraine. to the army had begun to be received. After these events, many websites of the Ukrainian government were closed due to the cyber attack.

Kiev blames Russia for cyber attacks

Ukrainian officials said this week that they had seen online warnings that hackers were preparing to launch massive attacks on government institutions, banks and the defense industry; There is no evidence of any interference from Moscow for the cyberattacks that Kiev blames on Russia. denial came.

“Another mass DDoS attack against our state started at 4 pm. We have relevant data from several banks” in the form of Ukraine Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo FedorovHe added that the parliament website was attacked. While Fedorov did not give any names for the banks affected by the attack, the central bank could not be reached to comment on the incident.

Cyber ​​attack said to be ‘modest’

Ukraine’s defense ministry and the online networks of the two banks were the target of separate cyberattacks last week; The US company Netscout Systems Inc (NTCT.O) later said in a statement (NTCT.O) that the attack was “modest”.

Internet blockchain observatory NetBlocks reported on Thursday that connections to Ukrainian government websites were down, NetBlocks director Alp Toker told Reuters, “We observed that the current network outage has a partial impact on the network layer to multiple defense and ministry websites in Ukraine.” had used the words.

Toker stated, “The spread of the outages is different from the recent DDOS attack targeting defense and banking platforms, but banking platforms were not affected in this case.”