Ukraine
UKR
23 February DDoS takes Ukrainian foreign ministry website offline
On 23 February 2022, a DDoS campaign made the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine’s public website unreachable for part of the day, temporarily cutting off its official digital information channel. Network monitoring and live reporting confirmed loss of availability; disruption of diplomatic communications or internal ministry work is not established.
64
Estimated severity
64 / 100
92
Source reliability
92 / 100
Approximate Date
2022-02-23
Targeted Company
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF UKRAINE
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
Ukraine
Affected countries
Ukraine
Impacted regions
No information
Operational Impact
Duration
No information
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Service unavailability
Affected sectors
Government & Public Administration
Affected departments
No information
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of service
Attributed threat actors
No information
Sources
Incident Sources
kentik.comhttps://www.kentik.com/analysis/ddos-attacks-against-ukrainian-government-networks/bellingcat.comhttps://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/23/attack-on-ukrainian-government-websites-linked-to-russian-gru-hackers/cfr.orghttps://www.cfr.org/cyber-operations/targeting-of-ukrainian-government-websites/