Security News > 2022 > February > Ukrainian government and banks once again hit by DDoS attacks

The sites of several Ukrainian government agencies, and of the two largest state-owned banks are again targeted by Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks.

Internet watchdog NetBlocks also confirmed that the websites Privatbank and Oschadbank were being hammered in the attacks and knocked down together with Ukrainian government sites.

"Today, websites of a number of government and banking institutions have undergone a massive DDoS attack again. Some of the attacked information systems are not available or work intermittently," the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine said.

These attacks follow another series of DDoS incidents that impacted Ukrainian government websites and banks last week, taking down the sites of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In a report published three days after last week's incidents, the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine said the attackers carried out the February 15th DDoS attacks using DDoS-as-a-Service platforms and multiple bot networks, including Mirai and Meris.

The UK government also pointed fingers at Russian GRU hackers being behind the DDoS attacks targeting online services belonging to the Ukrainian military and state-owned bank websites during the last week.

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