Microsoft: (Cyber) winter is coming as DDoS attack disrupts Russian bank
Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations – including the country's second-largest bank.
The government-controlled St Petersburg-based VTB finaincial institution announced on Tuesday it was facing an"unprecedented cyber attack from abroad," and added that the DDoS flood was the largest in the bank's history.statement released to Russian media."Its purpose is to cause inconvenience to the bank's customers by hindering the operation of banking services."
While"most" of the network-flooding traffic came from"foreign segments of the internet," some originated from Russian IP addresses, which the bank noted was"of particular concern." "We do not exclude that some of these Russian addresses could be among the participants in the attack as a result of cyber fraud," VTB said."All identified Russian IP addresses will be handed over to law enforcement agencies for verification, since organizing and participating in a DDoS attack is a criminal offense.
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