Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection posted on Twitter a Post Told in that Russian hackers are constantly attacking Ukraine’s sources of information. These hackers have targeted many important websites including President, Parliament, Cabinet, Defense Ministry and Internal Ministry. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been used for this. In this, to take the website offline, its traffic is sent to other servers. Ukraine’s cyber surveillance agency said that so far the websites have withstood the attacks.
Russia’s foreign ministry could not be reached for comment. Russia has previously denied involvement in cyber attacks. Russia was also accused of influencing elections in America through cyber attacks. Russian websites have also been damaged by DDoS attacks. Ukraine has asked its hackers to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber espionage operations against Russia’s military. Russia’s National Coordinating Center for Computer Incidents said last week that there have been major cyber attacks on Russian information sources.
The cyber attacks also targeted Oschadbank State Saving Bank and Privat Bank, one of Ukraine’s largest financial institutions. However, these attacks were not of a large scale. This did not cause much trouble. The websites of both the banks are now working as before. Six European Union (EU) countries have also sent teams of cyber security experts to help Ukraine deal with cyber threats. Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Romania and Croatia have sent this team in response to a request made by Ukraine.
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