During the last hours, the services of the state-owned Privatbank and Oschadbank have been malfunctioning due to a massive DDoS attack.

This was reported by the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security of Ukraine.

In particular, Privat24 users report problems with payments and the application in general. Some users do not manage to log in to Privat24 at all, others do not display the balance and recent transactions.

“Privat assures that there is no threat to depositors’ funds. The cyberattack concerns only the Privat24 application. The rest of the financial transactions are being carried out normally,” the statement said.

At the same time, failures are also observed in the work of Oschadbank, in particular, Internet banking is not working.

The websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also attacked by DDoS – they were not opened at the time of publication.

As reported, on the night of January 14, government websites were subjected to a large-scale cyber attack. According to the Interior Ministry, it  was planned and conducted by Russia’s intelligence services  and has become one of the largest in recent years. Its goal was the resources of 70 government agencies and government agencies. In particular, the “Action” portal was attacked, after which it was unavailable for several days. 

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