One of Ukraine’s largest banking platforms Monobank has reported a massive DDoS attack on its system, the bank’s co-founder Oleh Gorokhovsky reported on Dec. 12.
Mobile operator Vodafone Ukraine is experiencing problems with account top-ups and its app due to an increased load on its payment acceptance system caused by a major outage in the Kyivstar network, the company reported on Facebook on Dec. 12.
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, suffered a major disruption, leaving all its subscribers without communication and internet access, prompting urgent inquiries into the nature and origins of the crippling attack.
A downed Russian Shahed attack drone appeared to have a battery, a modem and a SIM card of the mobile operator Kyivstar. Source: the Institute for the Study of War (ISW); Telegram of OSINT investigators; Kyivstar on X Details: Military analysts, citing open Ukrainian sources, reported that Russian forces have been using Ukrainian Kyivstar SIM cards to control Shahed drones.