Tech Desk, AnyTV, Moscow/Kyiv
Published by: Pradeep Pandey
Updated Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:44 PM IST
Summary
Some Belarusian hackers also collaborated with Ukrainian hackers to disrupt Belarus’s railway network last week, stopping online ticket sales.
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Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection tweeted that Russian hackers continue to attack Ukrainian information resources. The agency says sites belonging to the Presidency, Parliament, the Cabinet, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were among those hit by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The servers of these sites were blocked so that the necessary information could not be given to anyone, however these sites have been restored. Some Belarusian hackers also collaborated with Ukrainian hackers to disrupt Belarus’s railway network last week, stopping online ticket sales.
Big cyber attack in Europe too
Let us tell you that on the day Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a big cyber attack on Viasat, a satellite internet service provider, after which the internet of thousands of users in many cities of Europe was shut down. After a major cyber attack on Viasat on 24 February, internet connection of about 9,000 users of its satellite internet service Nordnet in France was cut off.
Another satellite internet service provider bigblu has also confirmed that a third of its 40 thousand users in Europe, Germany, France, Greece, Italy and Poland have lost their internet. Please note that Eutelsat is the parent company of bigblu. It is suspected that these users are also affected by the attack on Viasat. Viasat said there has been a partial network outage in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe since a cyberattack.