KYIV. Feb 16 (Interfax) - The relevant Ukrainian agencies are keeping the ongoing DDoS attack on a number of government web resources under control, Viktor Zhora, deputy chief of the Ukrainian State Service for Special Communication and Information Protection (SSSCIP), said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
"The situation is fully under control now, and the attack is continuing. The average capacity of the attack being recorded by the SSSCIP's Protected Internet Access System is reaching dozens of gigabytes per second," Zhora said.
The SSSCIP is recording a variety of cyberattack techniques, and their diversity proves that they were well coordinated, and yet Ukraine is completely capable of countering them, he said.
Ihor Konovalov, director of the National Bank's security department, said the attack on Oschadbank's website was continuing as well.
"The DDoS attack continued in the morning, but the banks were fully prepared for it at the time. As of noon, PrivatBank fully recovered, and Oschadbank recovered about half an hour ago. No leakage of funds has taken place," he said.
As reported earlier, a massive DDoS attack on a number of Ukrainian banking and government web resources was recorded in the afternoon on February 15, 2022. In particular, the websites of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and Armed Forces were attacked, and some of PrivatBank's and Oschadbank's online services were disrupted. The operations of the online banking services were resumed by 7:30 p.m. on February 15.