To understand the evolving, shadowy world of cyberwarfare, start with Ukraine. “You can’t really find a space in Ukraine where there hasn’t been a [cyber] attack,” a NATO ambassador tells Wired correspondent Andy Greenberg. “Turn over every rock, and you’ll find a computer network operation.” Beginning in 2015, Ukraine was on the receiving end of vicious cyberattacks that experts later determined were launched by Russia. The attacks were ruthless, targeting every aspect of Ukrainian society: government servers, media organizations, transportation hubs. Ukrainian cyber experts watched helplessly as systems began to crash all around them. There were no public schedules or train service one day. ATMs went dark the next. The coup de grace came when the hackers targeted the electricity grid, plunging hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainians into darkness.
Cable provider Volia appealed to the Cyber Police on the fact of fixing a DDoS attack on the Kharkov servers of the company, which has been ongoing since May 31. "For three days, from May 31 to today, the Volia infrastructure in Kharkov is subjected to cyberattacks. At first, they were carried out only on subscriber subsystems, later they switched to telecommunications infrastructure. As a result, more than 100,000 subscribers experienced problems using the Internet, IPTV, multi-screen platform, and digital TV," said the company. In total, the complete lack of access to Volia's services, according to the provider, lasted 12 minutes on May 31, 45 minutes on June 1. There was also an attack on the website volia.com, but it was managed to neutralize. "DDoS attacks were massive and well-organized. The type of attack is UDP flood and channel capacity overflow with the traffic of more than 200 GB. UDP is a protocol used for online streaming services - streaming, te...
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