KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The websites of the Ukrainian army, defence ministry, and major banks were taken offline by a series of cyberattacks on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials, as emotions over the danger of a Russian invasion remained high.
Despite this, there was no indication that the relatively low-level distributed denial-of-service assaults were a front for more significant and destructive cybercrime.
The assaults rendered at least ten Ukrainian websites inaccessible, including the military, foreign, and cultural ministries, as well as Ukraine’s two major state banks. Websites are bombarded with a deluge of garbage data packets in such attacks, leaving them unavailable.