
A man at a computer KYIV, February 15 Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security of Ukraine, which operates under the Ministry of Culture of the country, announced on Tuesday about a DDoS attack on the websites of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Armed Forces, as well as Privatbank and Oschadbank. Earlier it was reported that access to the websites of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces was lost in Ukraine.
Germany offered Ukraine assistance in the fight against hackers»In recent hours, Privatbank has been under a massive DDoS attack. Users of Privat24 (the bank's application — ed.) Report problems with payments and with the operation of the application. Some users cannot log in at all in «Privat24», others do not display the balance and recent transactions. In «Privat» they assure that there is no threat to the funds of depositors. The cyber attack concerns only the Privat24 application. The rest of the monetary transactions are carried out as usual. In the work of Oschadbank failures are observed, Internet banking does not work. The websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also attacked. It is possible that the aggressor resorted to the tactics of petty dirty tricks, because, by and large, his aggressive plans do not work, «the center said in a Telegram message. In January This year, Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies were not working due to a hacker attack. According to the State Special Communications Service, Ukrainian state websites have been subjected to the most powerful attack in the last four years. Later, the security service and the national police of Ukraine opened a criminal case on the fact of cyber attacks. In Kiev, they said that Russia was allegedly involved in the attacks. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov denied accusations against Russia in connection with the January cyber attacks on the websites of Ukrainian government agencies. Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and does not intend to attack anyone, and claims of «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders.
The State Service for Special Communications of Ukraine announced a new hacker attack on the site

