The website of Ukraine’s national news agency Ukrinform has come under a cyberattack, the outlet reported in a Telegram post.
The newsroom remarked that they were in close contact with the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, the SBU’s Counterintelligence Department for the Protection of State Interests in the Field of Information Security, and other relevant services to boost their cyber defences and repel cyber threats.
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At the same time, Ukrinform stressed that Russia was constantly improving its capabilities and using new methods and tools in cyberattacks, which means protective systems have to be continuously stepped up.
“Specialists are currently looking into the details of the incident, assessing its impact, and working to restore the agency’s resources back to normal,” the team said.
In comments to Institute of Mass Information’s Valentyna Troyan, the agency’s head, Serhiy Cherevatyi, confirmed that Russian actors were behind the attack. He said that, one of the messages the hackers managed to post on the website, and which was promptly taken down, read, “Thank God we are Russians” (in Russian).
Serhiy Cherevatyi remarked that hardly a month goes by without his agency being targeted in a Russian hacker attack.
Ukrinform has come under cyberattack before, in 2024.