Over the past few days, monobank has come under several powerful waves of DDoS attacks. According to the co-founder of the project Oleh Horohovsky, the bank is currently one of the most attacked IT targets in the country.
Judging by Horokhovsky's Telegram messages, the attacks began in the evening of January 19.
“The most powerful DDoS attack. The situation is under control,” the businessman wrote at the time.
Subsequently, Horokhovskyi announced the second wave and 50 million requests for the service. In less than an hour, he reported that the attack had been repulsed.
“I think that today monobank is one of the most attacked IT targets in the country. DDoS attacks are just non-stop. An attack with a total load of 580 million service requests has just ended. It's just space. I want to say a big thank you to our IT team who look after our IT infrastructure. While I was writing, a new wave began… Let's stand!” – Horokhovsky wrote in the evening of January 21.
The businessman did not additionally report on repelling the attack.
We will remind, on December 12, problems were observed in the work of monobank, on the day of the cyber attack on the mobile operator “Kyivstar”. Due to the disappearance of the network, users began to massively switch to eSIM in the mono application, but after some time Horokhovskyi reported that the service was “closed”. During this period, clients purchased a thousand electronic cards, and another 5 thousand. remained in the registration queue.