Ukraine hit by unprecedented cyber-attacks, minister says
The cyber-attacks that hit Ukraine’s government websites and banks on Tuesday were the largest in the country’s history, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said on Wednesday.
“All the authorities responsible for cyber security worked to counter these attacks and eliminate them,” the Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted Mr Fedorov as saying.
The minister said that the distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, which cost an estimated “millions of U.S. dollars,” were prepared beforehand and aimed to destabilise the situation and sow panic in Ukraine.
Currently, the DDoS attack on the Ukrainian government websites has not yet stopped, but it is under control, according to Mr Fedorov.
Earlier on Tuesday, the cyber-attacks struck the website of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two government-owned banks, Privatbank and Oschadbank.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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