State Fiscal Service of Ukraine under large-scale cyber attack

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On October 9, the large-scale cyber attack was launched on the Internet resources of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.

«The cyber attack began at 6:00 p.m. on October 8; The target of the attack was the User Account (cabinet.sfs.gov.ua, IP-address 217.76.198.152). At 9 a.m. on October 9, the official web portal of the State Fiscal Service was attacked sfs.gov.ua, IP-address 217.76.198.157). It recorded a large number of requests, which led to overload of central processor unit of the firewall (up to 100%) and led to its unstable operation,» – said in a statement.

«The indicated cyber-interference led to the inaccessibility of the User Account and the official web portal of the State Fiscal Service resources to some Internet users,» – Strana.ua reported.

The provider has identified a cyber attack (Denial of service attack, DoS attack) and applied an attack defense mechanism. The SFS has already informed the Administration of the State Special Communication Service about the incident.

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