Official website of Russian Parliament, MoD and Kremlin go offline
NetBlocks, a global watchdog monitoring events related to cybersecurity and cyber attacks,
conveyed that many websites of Russian government have gone offline among which is the Kremlin domain – President Vladimir Putin’s official website.The organization, through a tweet,
stated:
Confirmed: Multiple government websites in Russia including the Kremlin and the State Duma have fallen offline; the incident comes amid a spate of cyber attacks targeting neighboring Ukraine. Besides the Kremlin (kremlin.ru) other websites that are offline include the one of Russian Ministry of Defense, and the official website of the Russian parliament (Duma). It is yet to be known if these sites became the victims of a cyber attack or it was the result of a malfunction. On the other side, it has been confirmed that many websites of Ukraine have been targeted with DDoS attacks together with malicious wiper software.
In a later development, the official website of Duma and Kremlin’s domain are back online now but the
website of Ministry of Defence is not operational so far. Hackread.com also confirmed that these websites went off the net soon after the country launched attack on Ukraine.
The site informed its users as follows:
NetBlocks has also reported internet service interruption in Ukraine amid the entrance of Russian troops into the country. Nevertheless, Hackread.com is keeping eye on the situation, and in case or whenever the disrupted sites are back online, we will update this article accordingly. Update (19:45 Thursday, Feb 24th,
UK Time) The official website of the Kremlin is back online and operating normally. However, the Ministry of Defence and Parliament websites are still down. Update (19:55 Thursday, Feb 24th, UK Time)
