In Ukraine, Privatbank, Oschadbank and the website of the Ministry of Defense were attacked. The attack was repulsed
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Users in Ukraine complain en masse about the disruptions in the work of the largest state-owned banks – PrivatBank and Oschadbank. The website of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine is also down.
Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security in Culture and Information Policy of the Ministry on DoS-attacks.
“It is possible that the aggressor resorted to such petty mischief, because by and large, his aggressive plans do not work,” – said the center.
During the day, Privatbank users reported problems with the Privat24 mobile application.
The bank’s press service acknowledged that there were “temporary difficulties” of a technical nature, there are problems with customer authorization.
The bank assured that specialists are working to solve problems and find out the reasons.
According to the Center for Strategic Communications, in the last year Privatbank has been “under a massive DDoS attack”.
“Users of Privat24 report problems with payments and in general from the date. Some users are unable to log in to” Privat24 “, and others do not display the balance and recent transactions,” – said the organization.
according to the report, there is no threat to depositors’ funds.
“Cyberatta depends on the application” Privat2 financial transactions 24 is performed normally, “- said the center.
Odbank’s clients also report problems. According to the profile resource Itc.ua, ATMs, self-service terminals do not work all over Ukraine, there are problems with payment in POS-terminals, as well as in the work of the application “Savings 24/7” and electronic services of the bank.
Oschadbank’s support service reports on Twitter that specialists are already working on solving the problems.
These failures in the Center for Strategic Communications are also associated with DoS attacks.
The nation has opened a criminal investigation into DDoS attacks on web resources, according to a Ukrainian report.
“As of 19:30, the work of banking web resources has been resumed. A working group of specialists from the main actors of the national cybersecurity system is taking all necessary measures to counter and localize cyber attacks,” the group said.
Hackers also tried to attack the state service “Action”, but attacked repulsed, an employee of the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.
“The initial vector is Russia and China. About 600 packets of harmful traffic per second. Our specialists quickly” cut “this area, but the attack returned from the Czech Republic and Uzbekistan. And was” repulsed “again. For users of” Action “the attack went unnoticed.” , – Fedorov writes.
