Ukrainian Monobank survives massive cyber attack, service unaffected
Business19 August 2024, 01:16 PM
The "more than 7.5 billion service requests over three says" DDoS attack that
hit Ukrainian bank Monobank has finally stopped, co-founder Oleh Horohovskyi
reported on Telegram on Aug. 19.
Horokhovsky reported a DDoS attack on Monobank on Aug. 16, that initially saw about a billion requests in the first three hours. The next day, the number of requests surged to 3 billion, and 5.5 billion on Aug. 18.
“Today at two in the morning the attack stopped,” he wrote.
“We didn't slow down or stop customer service for a minute. I am very grateful to our IT team and everyone who expressed their support and offered help.”
A DDoS attack, or denial-of-service attack, floods a resource with a high volume of requests from numerous IP addresses in an attempt to make it unavailable by overwhelming its capacity.