All systems of the state-owned Oschadbank and PrivatBank, which were attacked by a DDoS attack on February 15, are operating normally. This was announced at a briefing on February 16 by the director of the security department of the National Bank of Ukraine Ihor Konovalov, a GORDON correspondent reports.
“As of today, all systems of PrivatBank and Oshadbank are operating normally. You can see for yourself. Despite the fact that the DDoS attack continues. Now the attack on Oschadbank continues at about 1 million requests per second. As for yesterday, targeted attacks were carried out on Oschadbank, PrivatBank, mobile banking systems, reaching 2 million at their peak. [запросов] for Oschad, but much more for Privat,” he said.
According to Konovalov, the attacks continued on the morning of February 16, but the banks were ready.
“By 12.00 PrivatBank fully recovered, and Oschadbank recovered literally half an hour ago. There were no leaks, no losses of funds,” he said.
On February 15, it became known that there were failures in the operation of the banking services of PrivatBank and Oschadbank, as well as the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As later reported in the State Service for Special Communications, they were caused by a powerful DDoS attack. The media wrote that this DDoS attack – the most powerful of those to which Ukrainian resources were subjected.
Monobank co-founder Oleg Gorokhovsky said that almost all Ukrainian banks were attacked.
By 19.30 the work of banking services was restored, but after 20.00 the portal of public services “Diya” was attacked. Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov said that the attack began from Russia and China, and when it was “repulsed”, it returned from the Czech Republic and Uzbekistan. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, for users of “Dії” the attack was imperceptible.
The National Police opened criminal proceedings on the fact of DDoS attacks under Art. 361 (unauthorized intervention in the operation of automated systems) and art. 363-1 (intentional mass distribution of telecommunication messages, which led to disruption of automated systems) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
On February 16, the Ministry of Defense reported that the department’s website was subjected to an unprecedented DoS attack, which is still ongoing.
Kremlin speaker Dmitry Peskov said on February 16 that Russia was not involved in cyber attacks on Ukrainian resources.
Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov said at a briefing that a DDoS attack on February 15 was the largest in the history of Ukraine, but the sites quickly resumed work. He also noted that the cost of its implementation can reach millions of dollars.
Viktor Zhora, deputy head of the State Special Communications Service, said that the attacks continue on February 16, but the situation is completely under control.
Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Serhiy Demedyuk said that the purpose of the attack was informational and psychological and there were no financial losses.
gordonua.com
