Moscow Exchange And Sberbank Websites Knocked Offline—Was Ukraine’s Cyber Army Responsible?
Sberbank and the Moscow Exchange were both named as targets of the Ukraine IT Army. Websites for both were down Monday. Early Monday morning, the website for the Moscow Stock Exchange went down and was inaccessible.endorsed by Kyiv officials, called on members to launch attacks on the website, Moex[.]com, early on Monday. On Telegram, the IT Army claimed it took only five minutes to knock the site down.
“We can confirm the Moscow Exchange website is down, but we don't have visibility into the incident’s root cause or the extent of the disruption,” a spokesperson for NetBlocks, which tracks internet connectivity across the world, toldThis morning, the IT Army, announced by deputy prime minister Fedorov this weekend, also attempted to organize an attack on the website of Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank.
Ukraine and is supporters, via official and unofficial groups, have responded by launching DDoS attacks on numerous government targets. RT, the Russian-state funded TV station under scrutiny for its ties to the Kremlin propaganda machine, complained of being targeted by hacktivist collective Anonymous while the website of state news agency Tass was also offline.
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