(Reuters) – Ukrainian websites have been under nonstop attack from Russian hackers because the Kremlin launched an invasion of the nation final month, Kyiv’s cyber watchdog agency mentioned on Saturday.
In a submit https://twitter.com/dsszzi/standing/1500090448735621128 to Twitter, Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection mentioned that “Russian hackers carry on attacking Ukrainian info sources nonstop”.
The agency mentioned that websites belonging to the presidency, parliament, the cupboard, the ministry of protection and the ministry of inside affairs have been amongst these hit by distributed denials of service (DDoS) which work by directing a firehose of visitors in the direction of focused servers in a bid to knock them offline.
The agency mentioned the websites have been to date weathering the storm.
“We will endure! On the battlefields and within the our on-line world!” it mentioned.
Russia’s international ministry couldn’t be reached for remark. In the previous, Russia has denied it has been behind cyber assaults, together with ones affecting U.S. elections.
Russian websites have additionally been hammered with DDoS assaults. Ukraine has known as on its hacker underground to assist shield vital infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions in opposition to Russian troops.
On Friday Russia’s National Coordinating Center for Computer Incidents mentioned https://secure-surf.ru/specialists/information/676114 there had been “large laptop assaults” on Russian info sources.
(Reporting by Raphael Satter, Editing by William Maclean)
