This is a DDoS attack – the process of targeting a large number of requests that the system is unable to process and as a result fails. It is reported that the consequences of the attack have already been eliminated.

what is known

The cyber attack is attributed to the Russian group Killnet, which operates on the principles of hacktivism and specializes in carrying out DDoS attacks on countries that, according to them, support Ukraine. The group has carried out such attacks on government websites in the EU and on NATO’s web infrastructure, and in recent days it has attacked the websites of government organizations in Romania,
– says the Moldovan Information and Security Service.

• At one time, the Killnet group claimed that it successfully attacked the SBU website before the Russian attack on Ukraine, but the Ukrainian side did not confirm this information.
• In early March, it was claimed that the same people “laid” the Anonymous site.
• And at the end of the same month Poland was threatened. The criminals decided to warn the country authorities: “We promise to encrypt all information systems that have access to the Internet in your country, if your fascist government provokes a conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation, all your network communications will turn into an unnecessary pile of iron.”

Such actions against Moldova are of concern for two reasons. First, Russia often coordinates virtual offensive attacks in relation to physical attacks – with weapons. Secondly, it is not the first time that the world press discusses the possible intentions of the invaders to open a new front in the name of the so-called “Republic of Transnistria Moldavia”. In the early 1990s, through the Russian-backed armed conflict.

In the past few days, discussions about trying to lure another side into the war have erupted with new vigor, as two explosions at a local radio and television station destroyed two antennas, and later The Times reported that the Kremlin had decided to attack Moldova. .