Security News > 2022 > February > Massive cyberattack takes Ukraine military, big bank websites offline

A distributed denial-of-service cyber-attack today took down Ukrainian defense military websites - and at least two of the nation's biggest banks were knocked offline, too.

Ukraine's Ministry of Defense website is still unavailable at time of publication.

On social media, it reported "Technical works on restoration of regular functioning" are underway after it was "Probably attacked by DDoS: an excessive number of requests per second was recorded." Other military sites are also apparently suffering outages.

"PrivatBank has suffered a DDoS attack," said the Ukraine government's Centre for Strategic Communications on Facebook.

"Oshchadbank also suffered a DDoS attack. Work is currently underway to restore the system. It is already working in stable mode. There is only a slow entry to the Oshchad24/7 system due to an additional load on the communication channels."

Given similar incidents last month against Ukrainian government websites attributed to Russia and its satellite-state Belarus, not to mention a five-year record of such shenanigans - and not to mention more than 100,000 Russian Armed Force troops near Ukraine's border - you'd have thought the Ukrainian military would have been better prepared for an online assault.

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