Ukraine’s biggest telecommunications company Ukrtelecom was hit by the Russian invasion in a powerful cyber attack recently.
The attackers hit the mobile provider with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and disrupted its services across the country.
There was a loss of connectivity across Ukraine due to problems with internal systems which impacted the connectivity at nation scale.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/ukrtelecom
"id": "ukr143530322",
"linkid": "ukrtelecom",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "03/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "9",
"explanation": "Attack that could bring to a war"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Telecommunications',
'location': 'Ukraine',
'name': 'Ukrtelecom',
'size': 'Biggest in Ukraine',
'type': 'Telecommunications Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)',
'description': 'Ukraine’s biggest telecommunications company Ukrtelecom was '
'hit by the Russian invasion in a powerful cyber attack '
'recently. The attackers hit the mobile provider with a '
'distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and disrupted its '
'services across the country. There was a loss of connectivity '
'across Ukraine due to problems with internal systems which '
'impacted the connectivity at nation scale.',
'impact': {'downtime': 'Nation-wide Connectivity Loss',
'operational_impact': 'Service Disruption',
'systems_affected': 'Internal Systems'},
'motivation': 'Disruption of Services',
'threat_actor': ['Russian Invasion'],
'title': 'Cyber Attack on Ukrtelecom',
'type': 'DDoS Attack'}