He added that since the beginning of the Rissia-Ukraine war the company has been a target of cyberattacks on a weekly basis, with 70-80 of them being the large-scale attacks. “We have never seen anything like this before, but we withstood, ” Komarov said. The provider informed Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of the issue and during these two weeks was able to prepare to the attack.Īfter the company refused to pay the ransom, Fancy Lazarus launched a massive DDoS attack against Kyivstar, which reached a size of 1.5 tbps. The group gave the company two weeks to pay up. In an interview with Forbes Oleksandr Komarov, the company's president, said that initially the hackers launched a small-scale DDoS attack against Kyivstar that didn’t have a significant impact on the provider’s services.įancy Lazarus then contacted Komarov and demanded that the company pay them $250,000, so as to not become a victim of a DDoS attack. As of 2020, Kyivstar became the largest mobile operator and one of the largest broadband Internet providers in Ukraine. «Kyivstar» - is a Ukrainian telecommunications company that provides communication and data services. The Fancy Lazarus DDoS extortion group demanded a $250,000 ransom from Ukraine’s largest telecoms operator Kyivstar, threatening the company with massive high-volume distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, if the ransom is not paid.
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