Several Ukrainian government websites were the target of a massive cyber attack on Friday night.
The Ministry of Education and Research in Kiev said on its Facebook page that the ministry’s website was temporarily down after the “widespread” attack. The website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not be accessed either. In the early morning, the words “Be afraid and expect the worst” were temporarily read there in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish.
The websites of the Ministry of Disaster Management and the cabinet were also unavailable.
The cyber attack comes against the background of heightened tensions between Russia and the West in the Ukraine conflict. With a massive Russian troop deployment on the border with Ukraine, there are fears Moscow could attack the neighboring country. Several diplomatic crisis talks in the past few days were intended to ease tensions, but failed to bring about a breakthrough.
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