A cyberattack hit the websites of Ukraine's defense ministry and armed forces, and the websites of two Ukrainian banks, according to Ukrainian government agencies' statements
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the hacking incident."It's too early to attribute" responsibility, Victor Zhora, a deputy chairman at the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine -- who is investigating the incident -- told CNN.
identified the incident as a distributed denial of service attack, which floods a website with phony traffic to disrupt access to it. DDoS attacks are relatively cheap and easy to carry out. While they can be disruptive, they do not necessarily require sophistication.DHS warns of potential Russia cyberattacks amid tensionsUkrainian officials said that by 7:30 p.m. local time access to the websites of the banks -- PrivatBank and Oschadbank -- had been restored.
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