Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-02-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Services
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The websites of several Ukrainian banks and government departments, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Security Service (SBU) and Cabinet of Ministers became inaccessible following a large DDoS attack. Most other sites came online within two hours of the attack but latency and outages continued into the following day for others.