Cyberattack Hits Ukrainian Banks and Government Websites

Several Ukrainian government websites were offline Wednesday as a result of a mass distributed denial of service attack, Mykhailo Fedorov, head of Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation, said in his Telegram channel. From a report: The attack, which also impacted some banks, began around 4 p.m. local time, according to Fedorov. He didn't say which banks were attacked or what the extent of the damage was. Websites for the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet of Ministers and Rada, the country's parliament, were among those down as of Wednesday morning Eastern time. The government sites were offline as officials attempted to switch traffic elsewhere to minimize damage, he said. A DDoS attack is when a hacker floods a victim's network or server with traffic so that others are unable to access it.

Re:The Vector [of the Dark Side]?

[shanen]

Sounds too much like victim blaming for my tastes, but at least it's sort of technical victim blaming? Meanwhile, Microsoft just locked my account (again) for complaining too vigorously about Microsoft's "Live and let spam" support of scamming spammers, no doubt including some of Putin's goons. No love lost between me and MS. (So does anyone want to know what really annoys Microsoft? Not that I would want to encourage antisocial behaviors, of course... But hypothesize that you received some spam with 200 em

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[tlhIngan]

An attack like this is run through a lot of bots.

What percentage of those do you think are Microsoft Windows systems?

And tell me how Linux prevents this?

Because a lot of DDoS attacks have also been done by Linux running ioT crap running outdated versions.

Poorly written software is still poorly written software regardless of OS.

"didn't say which banks were attacked"

[oldgraybeard]

The banks that are not controlled by Putin maybe.

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[quantaman]

Putin doesn't control any banks. Look up the names. It's all racial Jews.

I thought the Ukrainians (with their Jewish President) were supposed to be the NAZIs.

Damn, it must be hard following the FSB script.

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[youngone]

Poor lizard people. [smbc-comics.com]
Doing all that hard work, just to see the Jews get the credit. Its not fair.

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[eneville]

It is the same playbook as Crimea, disrupt, not capitalise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

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[omnichad]

On the one hand, you could consider proxying important government web traffic through something like Cloudflare to be a national security risk, if not just a simple liability. Cloudflare does have a data center in Kyiv.

However, Cloudflare can only protect traffic on the protected IPs, not the real ones. Russia can easily get a list of the real IPs and take them down anyway. In fact, this 2020 news story says Russia has already done this: potential breach discovered by the The National Security and Defens [hackread.com]

Let's cut Russia off of the internet

[enxebre]

Like, completely. Stop all traffic from Russia, for all the rest of the world. See how long they last.

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[omnichad]

How much of the world will be willing to make that cut? China?

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[s4080326]

The fact that the piratebay is still accessible shows just how hard it is to actually cut internet access to someone, Russia isn't a small Island nation that can be completely disconnected. We could however very effectively throttle their connectivity I suspect if the west shutdown all local servers and any of the interconnections under their control it would overwhelm the remaining paths enough to impact Russian citizens. The problem is whether this would increase or reduce support for Putin's actions. I s

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[BardBollocks]

I found adding -US to google searches resulted in far less nonsense.

Open the gates, folks

[devslash0]

Mother Russia is coming for you.

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[devslash0]

What I meant, obviously, was that a cyber attack is most likely a distraction / diversion technique used by Russian before speculated invasion.