Russian Government Website Experiences Massive Cyber Attack, Up To 1 Terabyte

Massive cyber attack hits Russian government website. (photo; doc. pixabay)

JAKARTA – Russia's government website is facing the biggest cyberattack ever. The Russian ministry, as quoted by the TASS news agency, stated that now technical efforts are being carried out to filter foreign web traffic, Thursday, March 17.

Russian government entities and state-owned companies have been the targets of the invasion of Ukraine. The websites of the Kremlin, main airline Aeroflot and major lender Sberbank are the ones that have experienced temporary outages or problems with access in recent weeks.

The ministry is working to adjust to these new conditions, as cyber-attacks increase.

"If previously their power at peak times was 500 gigabytes, now it is 1 terabyte," the ministry said, as quoted by Reuters. "That's two to three times stronger than the most serious incidents of this kind that have been previously reported."

As Russia becomes increasingly isolated from the global financial system and supply chains. But the Russian government has proposed a number of measures to support the IT sector.

Tech companies will have access to preferential tax and loan conditions and the digital ministry has previously advised Russian IT companies to discuss phased transfers of technical support components with foreign companies.

Citing a draft government document, Interfax reported late Wednesday that the digital ministry had proposed an allocation of 14 billion rubles (IDR 1.9 trillion) to support IT companies in the form of grants.