{"id":238810,"date":"2022-01-15T08:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=238810"},"modified":"2022-01-15T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:42:50","slug":"cyber-attack-targets-ukrainian-govt-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/cyber-attack-targets-ukrainian-govt-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-attack targets Ukrainian govt websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Kyiv<br \/>\nA massive cyberattack warning Ukrainians to \u201cbe afraid and expect the worst\u201d hit government websites late on Thursday, leaving some websites inaccessible on Friday morning and prompting Kyiv to open an investigation.<br \/>\nUkraine\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson told Reuters it was too early to say who could be behind the attack, but said Russia had been behind similar strikes in the past.<br \/>\nThe cyberattack, which hit the foreign ministry, the cabinet of ministers, and the security and defence council, among others, comes as Kyiv and its allies have sounded the alarm about a possible new Russian military offensive against Ukraine.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s too early to draw conclusions, but there is a long record of Russian (cyber) assaults against Ukraine in the past,\u201d the foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters.<br \/>\nThe Russian foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia has previously denied being behind cyber attacks on Ukraine.<br \/>\n\u201cUkrainian! All your personal data was uploaded to the public network.<br \/>\nAll the data on the computer is destroyed, it is impossible to restore it,\u201d said a message visible on the hacked government websites, written in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish.<br \/>\n\u201cAll information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv A massive cyberattack warning Ukrainians to \u201cbe afraid and expect the worst\u201d hit government websites late on Thursday, leaving some websites inaccessible on Friday morning and prompting Kyiv to open an investigation. Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry spokesperson told Reuters it was too early to say who could be behind the attack, but said Russia had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cyber-attack targets Ukrainian govt websites<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/cyber-attack-targets-ukrainian-govt-websites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cyber-attack targets Ukrainian govt websites\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kyiv A massive cyberattack warning Ukrainians to \u201cbe afraid and expect the worst\u201d hit government websites late on Thursday, leaving some websites inaccessible on Friday morning and prompting Kyiv to open an investigation. 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