Cyberattack hits Ukrainian banks and government websites
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the Ukrainian President. He holds a joint press conference with Andrzej Duda, Polish President and Gitanas Nauseda, Lithuanian President. It was held in Kyiv (Ukraine), February 23, 2022.
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Numerous websites of the Ukrainian government were down on Wednesday due to a massive distributed denial of services (DDoS), according to Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. said in his Telegram channel.
Fedorov said that the attack on some banks also began at 4 p.m. local.
The websites of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Rada), Cabinet of Ministers (Kazakhstan) and Parliament (Ukraine) were all down on Wednesday morning Eastern Time. Officials tried to redirect traffic elsewhere in an effort to minimise damage to the websites of government officials, he stated.
DDoS is when hackers flood victim’s networks or servers with traffic to prevent others from accessing them.
While the exact source of this attack remains a mystery, outages have been reported as Russia. continues to accumulate troops around Ukraine’s borders. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said Russia has begun “an invasion,”Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to two pro-Russian regions of eastern Ukraine and announced sanctions against Russian banks and sovereign debt.
Ukraine reported a separate attack last weekAccording to NBC News four government websites were downed. NBC News also reported that the Cyber Police in Ukraine said at the time many people had been receiving text messages stating that ATMs would not function in their country. However, it is unclear if ATMs actually were affected.
Russia denied responsibilityFor the attack last week on Ukrainian government websites.
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