The United States is in contact with Ukraine regarding the hacking of Ukrainian ministry websites and has offered to help with the investigation. This was announced by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday, January 14.
“We are in contact with the Ukrainian side and have offered our support in investigating the consequences of this incident. At the moment, together with Ukraine, we continue to assess the consequences, ”the transcript of the briefing was published on the website of the US government.
Psaki added that the White House is not ready for unambiguous conclusions about who exactly is behind the cyberattack.
“At this time, we are not ready to say who carried out these acts,” the spokeswoman said.
According to her, the US and its allies and partners are “concerned about this cyberattack.” President Joe Biden was briefed on it.
On January 14, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that Russia was allegedly guilty of cyber attacks on Ukrainian government websites. He noted that reports of the attacks appeared in the Russian media an hour after they were committed.
Earlier in the day, the websites of several Ukrainian ministries were attacked by hackers. As a result, threats against the inhabitants of Ukraine appeared on the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food. The reports claimed that all the personal information of the inhabitants of the country was uploaded to the “common network”, and all data on computers would allegedly be destroyed without the possibility of recovery.
Later, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, said that most of the Ukrainian state sites have restored work after a massive cyber attack. According to Yermak, Kiev is closely cooperating on this issue with the United States and Great Britain.
Source: IZ
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