Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-05-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Russian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations.
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Public Administration
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Ukraine IT Army
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Ukraine
Description: Researchers from Crowdstrike reveal that Docker images with a download count of over 150,000 have been used to run DDoS attacks against a dozen of Russian and Belarusian websites managed by government, military, and news organizations.