A number of Ukrainian government websites were targeted in a cyberattack with threatening text warning Ukrainians to 'be afraid and wait for the worst' and alleging their personal information has been hacked.
"As a result of a massive cyberattack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are temporarily down," Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on his official Twitter account on Friday.
"This is not the first time or even the second time that Ukrainian Internet resources have been attacked since the beginning of the Russian military aggression," it added. The UIA and OUN were Ukrainian ultranationalist groups that fought for independence during the Soviet era, while Galicia, Volhynia and Polesie are areas from which they historically drew high levels of support.
The websites of the ministries of education, foreign affairs, sport, energy, agrarian policy, veterans, environment and the state emergency service of Ukraine and the state treasury were targeted, according to state media Ukrinform. Oleh Derevianko, found of Kyiv-based cybersecurity firm ISSP, said he wasn't surprised by the defacement of government websites.
When asked if Russian governmental or non-governmental actors were behind the attacks, Borrell responded that although he didn't want to"point fingers" there"is a certain probability as to where they came from." The US and Russia met this week for high-stakes talks aimed at averting a war, as Russia continued to mass troops near Ukraine's borders amid a dispute over NATO activities in Eastern Europe and the prospect that Ukraine could join the military alliance.
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