Monobank, one of the most popular in Ukraine, once again faced a powerful DDoS attack, reported Monobank co-founder Oleh Horokhovsky on Jan. 21.
“I think Monobank is currently one of the most attacked IT targets in the country,“ Horokhovsky wrote on Telegram.
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“The DDoS atacks are just relentless. We’ve just finished dealing with an attack that had a total load of 580 million requests on the service. It’s just astronomical.”
As Horokhovskyi was writing his message, a second wave of the attack began.
Monobank reported difficulties in the operation of its mobile application related to a DDoS attack on Jan. 19, which Horokhovskyi called “the most powerful”.
A disruption occurred in the operation of the Monobank banking application, which lasted about an hour on Jan. 9. Some users complained about being unable to log in.
Following reports of a major outage in the operation of the mobile operator Kyivstar, Monobank co-founder Oleh Horokhovskyi reported massive DDoS attacks on their system on Dec. 12.
Read also: Major banking platform Monobank experiences massive DDoS attacks following Kyivstar network outage
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