The media resource stopped working on July 9 in the afternoon, it was unavailable for at least six hours.
The anonymous Telegram channel “Joker” DNR said that it took the Navy’s website to “use” during the Sea Breeze exercises. allegedly personal data of the participants in the exercises. In the screenshot he showed, the latest news on the website of the Ukrainian Navy is dated July 9th. There was a message from the Joker. It has now been removed.
Later in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed that the resource was hacked… Russia tried to repeat “Defender Case” with the website of the Ukrainian Navy, the department stressed.
They said that as a result of the cyberattack, “some documents and mostly fake messages” were published related to the exercises Sea Breeze. “None of the documents were obtained as a result of information leakage from the information and telecommunication systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the ministry said.
Sea Breeze is an annual multinational naval exercise that includes sea, land and air components. They have been jointly conducted by the United States and Ukraine in the Black Sea region since 1997. Exercise Sea Breeze 2021 started on June 28 and will continue until July 10.
This year, as part of the exercises in the Black Sea, record number of participants… The maneuvers will be the largest since 1997, said Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak.
Teachings consist of four phases: the arrival of forces and the deployment of command posts, the alignment of forces, the active phase, summing up the results of the exercises and the curtailment of forces. They will pass in Odessa, Ochakov, Dnestrovsky estuary, on the Kinburnskaya spit, Zmeiny and Pervomaisky islands, in the Danube river delta.
Teachings have already entered the active phase.
Russia urged NATO to abandon the exercises due to “aggressive character” and “encouragement of militaristic sentiments” in Ukraine. When the exercises did begin, the Russian military said that keep an eye on the ships participating in the Sea Breeze.
In 2020, according to the National Security and Defense Council, in Ukraine recorded at least 1 million cyber attacks… Vulnerable government web servers have been infected with a virus that covertly makes them part of a botnet used for DDoS attacks on other resources. Internet service providers’ security systems identified compromised web servers as the source of attacks and began to block them by automatically adding them to blacklists.
DDoS attacks were recorded and blocked in 2021 to the websites of the President’s Office Ukraine, SBU and other resources.
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