BOSTON: The websites of Ukraine’s defense, foreign and interior ministries were unreachable or painfully slow to load Feb 24 morning after a punishing wave of distributed-denial-of-service attacks as Russia struck at its neighbour, explosions shaking the capital of Kyiv and other major cities.
In addition to DDoS attacks on Wednesday, cybersecurity researchers said unidentified attackers had infected hundreds of computers with destructive malware, some in neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania.
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