Minister: Ukraine websites down in another ‘massive’ online attack
Web sites of Ukraine’s Ministry of International Affairs and nationwide parliament have been down Wednesday, in what the nation’s digital minister described as “one other large [distributed denial-of-service] DDoS assault on our state.”
Banks and authorities web sites have been inaccessible, Mykhailo Fedorov, minister of digital transformation, said on Telegram, including some companies have been being restored and others disrupted deliberately to “reduce the injury from the assault.”
On the time of writing, the web site of the national parliament and the cabinet of ministers have been already restored, whereas the foreign affairs ministry’s website was nonetheless inaccessible.
It is the second time in simply days that Ukrainian authorities companies are disrupted with large-scale DDoS assaults, through which hacking teams use massive networks of computer systems to ship an avalanche of visitors to sure web sites, forcing the web sites to go down. Final week, banks and authorities web sites suffered a really comparable incident that authorities officers mentioned was the largest-ever DDoS assault on the nation.
The U.S., U.K. and Australia in previous days have come out with statements blaming Russia’s navy intelligence service GRU for being behind final week’s DDoS assault.
