The main target of the attack was “Banks” – a service for voluntary collection and accumulation of funds, its popularity increased after the start of the Kursk operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A massive three-day DDoS attack on Monobank stopped on Monday night. All this time, the work of the virtual bank continued, the co-founder of the financial institution Oleg Gorokhovsky said on Telegram on August 19.
“Today at two o’clock in the morning the attack stopped in just three days, we received more than 7.5 billion requests to our services.
Earlier, Gorokhovsky reported that the main target of the attack was “Banks” – a service for collections of volunteers and accumulation of funds, the popularity of which increased after the start of the Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces – increased rate of closure of collections. three times.
It was also reported that Amazon Web Services employees joined in protecting Monobank from the attack. Ukrainian special services also offered their help.
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a type of cyber attack where attackers try to overload a server or network resource with a large number of requests, exceeding its processing capacity. This results in the resource being inaccessible to legitimate users.
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