Russia Behind Ukraine DDoS Cyber Attacks: US, UK
Russia is being claimed to be the attacker on Ukraine-based Websites including Banks, Military, and intelligence.
The US and UK have been continuously claiming that Russia is hacking the Ukraine websites as seen transmitting high volumes of communications to Ukraine-based IP addresses and domains.
Highlighted facts
- The US has evidence data showing the infrastructure connection with the Russian military agency.
- British officials also revealed the attacker as GRU was almost certainly involved.
- In response, Russia has denied any attacks on Ukraine’s cyber security.
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Ukraine’s government websites of Banking and military intelligence were attacked by a hacker which knocked the country working. Other nations like the US and UK blamed Russia for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over Ukraine.
US deputy national security advisor Anne Neuberger told a journalist at the White House that Washington was seeking to curb Russia to conduct such massive cyber attacks all over the world.
Anne Neuberger Said
“Russia likes to move in a shadow and counts on a long process of attribution,” added more “in light of that, we are moving quickly to attribute the DDoS attacks. We believe the Russian government is responsible for widespread attacks on Ukrainian banks this week,” said to the journalist.
He also told that a Russian military intelligence agency GRU has a connection to these cyber-attacks and it was seen “Transmitting high volumes of communication to Ukraine-Based IP address and domains,” said in White House.
Including the US, British officials also claimed the Russian agency GRU was “almost certainly involved,” in Ukraine DDoS attacks which curbed the working of Ukrainian Government Important websites.
Related to an attacks Britain’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has made a statement in which he pointed Russia for such attacking and said “the attack showed a continued disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty,” also added, “this activity is yet another example of Russia’s aggressive acts against Ukraine.”
And added, “this disruptive behavior is unacceptable,” by FCDO.
Russia in between such claim by such a great nation, express its clear deny and said that Russia is not involved in any of such DDoS attacks.
Kyiv also had blamed Russia (Moscow) for such DDoS attacks in the situation of high tension after Russia started to send its larger military stake in Ukraine border intended to rage a war against Ukraine. The Russian officials have denied such intention to dig deep in the county.
