Some websites in Ukraine, mainly related to the country’s government, went offline after cyber attacks. The websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country were the main affected. The hackers would have started the intrusions into the systems during Russia’s military attacks on Ukrainian territory.
In addition to Ukraine’s government websites, other systems were also attacked by hackers. Ukrainian banks also suffered from the onslaught. According to the country’s government, cyber attacks at this level have never been seen before, leaving many connections inaccessible.
Still, the incident does not represent the first wave of such attacks on Ukraine’s network this year. It is already the third in 2022, although this is the most sophisticated. The first record of the latest wave of attacks came on Wednesday afternoon, the 23rd, when connectivity company NetBlocks recorded outages.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to take a website offline by flooding it with massive amounts of requests until it fails. “Another Mass DDoS Attack on Our State [começou],” Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
Last week, a similar attack took fewer websites in the country offline. UK and US cyber authorities quickly blamed Russian hackers for this attack on direct orders from the Kremlin, however Moscow denied being involved In January, the Ukrainian government accused Russia of being behind another wave of DDoS and a smaller wave. and less sophisticated attacks.
In January, the Ukrainian government accused Russia of being behind another wave of DDoS and a smaller, less sophisticated wave of attacks. Some affected websites have been replaced by a warning to Ukrainians to “prepare for the worst”. Access to most sites was restored within hours.
On Tuesday, the EU announced that a cyber rapid response team (CRRT) was being deployed across Europe, following a call for help from Ukraine. It is unknown whether the team of experts from six volunteer countries is helping to defend against this latest attack.
DDoS attacks have been used in various campaigns as part of Russia’s so-called “hybrid warfare” tactics, combining cyberattacks with traditional military activities. DDoS attacks hit Georgia and Crimea during raids in 2008 and 2014, respectively.
This article is a translation of the writing by Joe Tidy for BBC News.
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