Ukraine Ministry of Defense confirms DDoS attack; state banks lose connectivity
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry and several state-backed banks were hit with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incidents or disruptions on Tuesday. The Defense Ministry website is down, and it confirmed that it was attacked, telling the public that it will be communicating through Twitter and Facebook.
"The MOU website was probably attacked by DDoS. An excessive number of requests per second were recorded. Technical works on restoration of regular functioning are being carried out," the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday afternoon.
The confirmation came as residents of Ukraine reported issues with some ATMs and banking services at State Savings Bank, PrivatBank, and Oschadbank. NetBlocks, an organization tracking internet outages around the world, confirmed the loss of service to multiple banking and online platforms in Ukraine "in a manner consistent with a denial of service attack."
