Security News > 2022 > February > DDoS attacks knock Ukrainian government, bank websites offline
Unknown attackers have mounted disruptive distributed denial-of-service attacks against several Ukrainian government organizations and state-owned banks on Tuesday.
The DDoS attacks' impact on government sites and bank services.
"The attackers probably knew that the site was protected from classic DDoS attacks, so they resorted to finding vulnerabilities in the code of the site itself. We can state that they succeeded," the Ministry of Defence shared via their Facebook page.
The attacks are believed to be a part of a larger campaign to demoralize Ukrainians, whose country is seemingly on the brink of being invaded by the Russian Federation.
The worry following these DDoS attacks is that they served as a deliberate misdirection of attention, and that more serious hacking attempts happened in the background.
Ukrainian government websites have suffered defacements a month ago, followed by a campaing targeting various Ukrainian organizations with wiper malware masquerading as ransomware.
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