Ukrainian authorities are investigating a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that targeted the country’s Ministry of Defence, as well as a number of financial institutions, in a series of incidents on the afternoon of Tuesday 15 February.

The attacks rendered the Ministry of Defence’s website inoperable for a time, forcing it to resort to communicating via social media, and compromised access to consumer internet banking services at PrivatBank and OschadBank. Mirohost, a provider of hosting services, also seems to have been a target.

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