White House attributes Ukraine DDoS incidents to Russia’s GRU

Photo caption: Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger, speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on Feb. 18, 2022. Photo credit: Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Joe Warminsky. CyberScoop – February 18, 2022.

Russia was behind recent disruptions of Ukrainian government and banking websites, a top White House official said Friday.

“We have assessed that Russia was responsible for the distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attacks that occurred earlier this week,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology. […]

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