Thread by @ericgeller

🚨 The websites of Ukraine's parliament, foreign ministry, and executive cabinet are down, possibly due to a new distributed denial-of-service attack.

rada.gov.ua
mfa.gov.ua
kmu.gov.ua

Cabinet of Ministers website appears to be back up. Rada and MFA sites still down.

Looks like Privatbank's website is having issues too. privatbank.ua

"Another mass DDoS attack" began at around 4 p.m. Agencies are "switching traffic to another provider" to mitigate the effects of the attack.

https://twitter.com/JennaMC_Laugh/status/1496506998459883522

Privatbank is working for me now, although the "Human Verification" page doesn't remember me when I refresh, which suggests a very aggressive bot-checking feature that's probably smart.

But now the website of Ukraine's SBU (their FBI) is also down. ssu.gov.ua

Cloudflare is monitoring the situation in Ukraine.

"We’ve seen sporadic DDoS activity in Ukraine," a spokesperson says. "We've seen more DDoS activity this week than last week, but less than a month ago."

.@dsszzi says it's "working on countering the attacks, collecting and analyzing information."

Describes the activity as a second "massive DDoS attack."

cip.gov.ua/en/news/chergo…

@dsszzi SBU site now working for me, while Rada and MFA are still down, and KMU (Cabinet of Ministers) is back down.

This see-sawing between outage and restoration makes it seem like the attackers are trying to overwhelm the mitigation efforts.