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Kyivstar’s network began behaving erratically and experienced cascading failures of several infrastructure elements after a massive cyberattack on Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar president Oleksandr Komarov told Forbes on Dec. 13.

The Solntsepek hacking group, which has claimed responsibility for hacking Kyivstar’s mobile network, is part of the Russian military intelligence agency the GRU, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported on Telegram on Dec. 13.

The cyberattack on Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, resulted in an increase in network load for Kyivstar's competitors Vodafone and Lifecell, Vodafone told NV on Dec. 13.

The major Russian cyberattack on Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, took place through a compromised employee account, Kyivstar President Oleksandr Komarov told Ukrainian TV broadcasters on Dec. 13.

Given the protracted outage of Kyivstar’s (Ukraine’s largest mobile operator) network after a major cyberattack, its competitors remain limited in how many Kyivstar clients they can service, Petro Chernyshov, former head of Kyivstar, told NV Business on Dec. 13.

ATMs and terminals belonging to Ukraine’s largest bank PrivatBank are down amid numerous technical problems affecting banks and mobile communications companies in Ukraine, the bank’s press service told an NV Business correspondent.

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.

Kyivstar’s cellular and internet signal down while Monobank suffers a distributed denial of service attack