Ukraine
UKR
23 February DDoS briefly disables Ukrainian cabinet government portal
On 23 February 2022, a large-scale DDoS attack disabled Ukraine’s cabinet/executive-government website, preventing access to the government’s public online information for a period that observers reported ending around 17:10 Kyiv time. The available records do not show that government decision-making or essential offline services stopped.
64
Estimated severity
64 / 100
93
Source reliability
93 / 100
Approximate Date
2022-02-23
Targeted Company
CABINET OF MINISTERS 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/