Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova announced that the Foreign Ministry was subject to a cyberattack of “unprecedented scale.” Zakharova stated that the ministry’s technical service teams are working to restore access to the website.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova announced that the Russian Foreign Ministry was subject to a serious cyberattack during the BRICS summit. In a previous statement, Zakharova stated that the ministry was subjected to a large-scale “denial of service attack” and said, “This morning, a large-scale cyberattack on the infrastructure of the official website of the Russian Foreign Ministry was launched from abroad.” Zakharova made a statement about the cyber attack, which was “of unprecedented scale.” “We decided not to add new information to ensure access to the site,” Zakharova said, adding, “We believe that such hostile influences may be related to the BRICS summit events that were successfully held in Kazan these days.” Zakharova stated that the ministry’s technical service teams are working to restore access to the website.
