Biden: Condemns cyber-attacks on Ukrainian government site

U.S. President Joe Biden has been briefed on the cyber-attack in Ukraine, and Washington and its allies have offered to help Kiev as the investigation into the nature and impact of the attacks continues, a White House National Security Council spokesman said.

“We will provide Ukraine with all the support it needs to recover,” he said.

Earlier in the day, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also condemned the cyber-attack, which shut down several government websites.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has condemned the attacks on Ukrainian government websites.

“NATO has been working closely with Ukraine for years to help strengthen cyber defense. “NATO cyber experts in Brussels are exchanging information with their Ukrainian counterparts about current malicious cyber activities,” Stoltenberg said.

He added that “allied experts in the country also support the Ukrainian authorities on the ground. “In the coming days, NATO and Ukraine will sign an agreement on enhanced cooperation in cyberspace, including Ukraine’s access to NATO’s malware exchange platform.”

“NATO’s strong political and practical support for Ukraine will continue,” said Jens Stoltenberg.

The chronicle of the great crash

The Ukrainian government website collapsed late Thursday night, warning Ukrainians to “fear and expect the worst”.

The cyber-attack resulted in several of the sites being inaccessible this morning, forcing Ukrainian authorities to launch an investigation.

Officials speak of a “massive cyber attack”.

The content of government websites did not change during the cyber-attacks and no personal data was leaked, the Ukrainian government said recently, noting that a number of other government websites had been shut down to prevent the attack from spreading to other sources. but most of the affected state sources have already been restored.

A spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry also told Reuters it was too early to say who might be behind the attack, but noted that Russia had been behind similar strikes in the past.

The cyber-attack, which hit the Foreign Ministry, the cabinet and the Security and Defense Council, among others, came as Kiev and its allies sounded the alarm over a possible new military strike on Ukraine.

Russia has in the past denied that it was behind cyber-attacks in Ukraine.

“Ukrainians! All your personal data has been uploaded to the public network. All your computer data has been corrupted, it is impossible to recover it,” said a message posted on attacked government websites in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish.

“All information about you has been made public, fear and expect the worst. This applies to your past, your present and your future.”

The United States warned on Thursday that the threat of a Russian military intervention was high. Russia says dialogue is continuing but deadlocked as Moscow tries to persuade the West to block Ukraine’s NATO membership and overturn decades of alliance expansion into Europe – demands that the United States has said “can not to be the basis for continuity “.

“It’s too early to draw conclusions, but there have been a long series of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the past,” a spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry told Reuters.

A senior Ukrainian security official told Reuters: “All cybersecurity agents were aware of such potential challenges from the Russian Federation. So the response to these incidents was normal.”

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