Ukraine’s Ombudswoman Liudmyla Denisova has claimed massive attacks are being carried out on the official website of the authorized representative of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights, which make it impossible for the resource to function normally. She has asked Ukraine’s SBU State Security Service to investigate and find the perpetrators of the attacks.
“As soon as my messages about Ukrainian prisoners and political prisoners held in the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk regions and Crimea appear on the site, massive extraneous attacks are carried out on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, which make the normal functioning of the resource impossible, and sometimes make the site crash,” Denisova said on Facebook on May 14.
Denisova said information she had published the day before about the suspected coronavirus infection of Ukrainian political prisoner Serhiy Buhaichuk, after which the site was twice subjected to such attacks.
“The systematic nature of malicious actions can be traced over the past year and a half: on September 1, 2018, the site was infected with a virus that blocked access to any of its sections except the main page. On May 14, 2019, unauthorized persons received full control over the file structure, because of which the site was blocked. On April 18, 2020, malicious software was downloaded to the database that generated third-party links on each page of the site. There are more examples,” she said.
In this regard, Denisova she was addressing SBU Chief Ivan Bakanov with a request to initiate investigative actions and find intruders who commit the relevant offenses.
