The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported the repulsion of a large-scale cyberattack on the War&Sanctions portal, which contains information about foreign suppliers of components for Russian weapons, sanction lists, and a list of Russian propagandists.
"On April 7, Russian intelligence services launched a powerful DDoS attack on the War&Sanctions portal. The scale of the resources involved indicates a large operation aimed at disabling it," the Main Intelligence Directorate stated.
In nearly 30 minutes, hackers made more than 56 million requests — about 40 thousand per second. The attack involved more than 3,700 virtual machines located in over 10 countries, including Russia and China. Among the Russian IP addresses with the highest number of requests were those of the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
The Main Intelligence Directorate reported that its cybersecurity experts repelled the cyberattack, and the portal did not lose any data, and its infrastructure was not damaged.
"Such large-scale organized actions demonstrate the effectiveness of the portal as a tool to counter the aggressor. But all the efforts of the Russian intelligence services are in vain," the intelligence officers commented on the attack.
The War&Sanctions portal was launched in April 2022. Last year, on International Children's Day (June 1), a separate section was added to the portal with a database of Russian and Belarusian kidnappers of Ukrainian children.
