In his statement on the night of February 21 to February 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to officially recognize the “so-called” administrations of the pro-Russian Donetsk and Luhansk Republic separatists in eastern Ukraine; Following this, the Russian army entered Ukraine.
Directly to the minds “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 began to be recruited into the army in Ukraine. After these events, many websites of the Ukrainian government were closed due to the cyber attack.
Kiev blames Russia for cyberattacks
Ukrainian authorities reported online this week that hackers are preparing to launch massive attacks on government institutions, banks and the defense industry. while saying that they saw warnings; There has been a denial of any intervention from Moscow for the cyber attacks that Kiev blames on Russia.
“Another mass DDoS attack on our state started at 4 pm. We have relevant data from several banks,” said Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, adding that the parliamentary 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.
Cyberattack described as ‘modest’
Ukraine’s defense ministry and online networks of 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 blockade observatory NetBlocks reported on Thursday that connections to Ukrainian government websites were down, NetBlocks director Alp Toker told Reuters, “The current network outage has a partial impact on the network layer to multiple defense and ministry websites in Ukraine. We observed that.” had used the words.
Toker stated, “The spread of outages is different from the recent DDOS attack targeting defense and banking platforms, but banking platforms were not affected in this case.”
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