Kyiv has announced a fresh round of cyber attacks against government websites and banks, raising concerns that Russia was mounting an online offensive just hours after the Kremlin said it would partially pullback some 130,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders.
The Ukrainian government said in a statement on Tuesday that two state-owned banks, PrivatBank and Oschadbank, had been targeted by “massive” denial of service attacks and other failures which interrupted banking services.
“The websites of the ministry of defence and the armed forces of Ukraine were also attacked,” the government’s centre of strategic communications said. Although it did not specifically name