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Washington has offered Kiev support in investigating and responding to cyberattacks on the websites of the Ukrainian state services Dia, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense, Privatbank and Oschadbank on Tuesday.
According to UNIAN, in a commentary to Reuters, an unnamed European diplomat noted that such a hack is of concern, since a full-scale Russian military attack on Ukraine would most likely be preceded by a cyber attack. In his opinion, Russia is behind the attack.
Also according to the publication, the United States has already offered support in the investigation and response to the attack.
On the morning of February 15, some Privatbank customers received a message that the institution’s ATMs had allegedly stopped working en masse. Privatbank stated that this information is not true.
Then the Privat24 mobile application stopped working. Privatbank reported that a DDoS attack had been carried out on the Privat24 application.
The official website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the website of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also stopped working.
According to the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Mikhail Fedorov, at about 21:00 Moscow time, a powerful DDoS attack began on the Diya public services portal of Ukraine. The attack, according to Fedorov, came from Russia and China. “Somewhere around 600,000 packets of malicious traffic per second. Our experts quickly “cut off” this direction, but the attack returned from the Czech Republic and Uzbekistan. Now the threat has been stopped, the attack has remained invisible to users.
Source: Rosbalt
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