Cyber attack (illustration)Several government agencies and banks in Ukraine were once more attacked by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the 23rd (local time), TAS news agency reported. The background behind the attack has not yet been ascertained.
According to reports, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Digitalization Minister Mikhail Fedorov said that the DDoS attack had begun on the same day as the parliament, cabinet and foreign ministry and other state institutions and banks.
He said, “Another large-scale DDoS attack on our country started around 4 pm,” he said.
Interfax news agency also reported that “official sites such as the Ukrainian Parliament, Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Reunification of Occupied Territories (Crimea and Donbass Reunification Department) were down this evening.”
In addition, he added that the operation of sites such as the National Security Agency, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Police), and the Ministry of National Defense, which are intelligence agencies, is being disrupted.
The Ministry of Digitalization said that banks were also hit by DDoS attacks.
Ukrainian authorities earlier said they had received online warnings that hackers were preparing cyberattacks once morest government agencies, banks and defense-sector organizations, Archyde.com reported.
The Ukrainian Cyber Security Center said on the 15th that the website of the Ministry of National Defense and two banks had been subjected to cyber attacks. Ukraine has blamed Russia for the ongoing cyberattacks, which Russia denies.
The cyberattacks on Ukrainian institutions are taking place amid heightened tensions between the two countries over fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Western experts have warned that Russia may launch a cyberattack once morest key Ukrainian institutions to create social chaos ahead of its invasion of Ukraine.
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