US warily eyes another front in Ukraine-Russia conflict: Cyberspace
As U.S. and Ukrainian officials try to pin down Russia’s troop movements amid growing skepticism of President Vladimir Putin’s claims of a partial withdrawal, an even trickier front to monitor may be cyberspace.
Key Ukrainian websites, including those of the Defense Ministry, military, and two major banks, were disabled by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday. Some ATMs shut down briefly, and customers experienced difficulty logging in or checking their balances.
The Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security said that the relatively unsophisticated attacks, which can sometimes be used as a smokescreen for more destructive activities, were three times greater in magnitude than any previous DDoS attacks on the country and cost millions of dollars.
“The key goal
