Hungarian banking and Telecom services were disrupted by a massive wave of cyberattack on Thursday, launched from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam.
According to the telecom firm Magyar Telekom, the attack was potent and is one of the most powerful cyberattacks that ever hit Hungary.
“The company said that the volume of data traffic in the attack was ten times higher than the amount usually seen in DDoS events, ” reported the Reuters agency.
“That means that this was one of the biggest hacker attacks in Hungary ever, both in its size and complexity, ” the company added.
“Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese hackers tried to launch the DDoS attack against Hungarian financial institutions, but they tried to overwhelm the networks of Magyar Telekom as well, ” the company said in a statement.
The DDoS attack was able to disrupt the services of some banks in the country and caused lapses in Magyar Telekom’s services in certain parts of the capital, Budapest.
The cyberattack was also confirmed by the Hungarian bank OTP bank in a statement.
“There was a DDoS attack on telecom systems serving some of the banking services on Thursday, ” said the bank.
“We repelled the attempt together with Telekom that was also affected and the short disruption in some of our services ended by Thursday afternoon.”
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