Russian state-owned bank VTB hit by largest DDoS attack in its history


FILE PHOTO The logo of VTB bank is seen at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum SPIEF in Saint Petersburg Russia June 15 2022. REUTERSMaxim ShemetovFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: The logo of VTB bank is seen at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 15, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's No. 2 bank VTB was hit by the largest cyber attack in its history, it said on Tuesday, warning of temporary difficulties in accessing its mobile app and website, but assuring customers that their data remained safe.

State-owned VTB said it was repelling the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which hackers attempt to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyse it.

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