The Ukrainian hacking group BO Team says it has kept St. Petersburg ISP SkyNet under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Oct. 6, and the provider says gaming, voice, video, Wi‑Fi, and fiber services have been hit for days. SkyNet is one of the city’s major internet providers and also carries residential, business, TV, phone, and data-center services.
A DDoS does not break into an account; it floods the service until traffic slows, drops, or times out, which is why SkyNet’s customers were reporting high latency and outages while the company tried to mitigate the load. That means the operational damage can keep spreading across product lines even when no internal system is confirmed compromised.
For providers with city-scale footprints, the exposure is service continuity: a sustained attack can leave whole customer groups degraded at once, and the useful question becomes how long mitigation can hold rather than whether any one host was taken offline. The reporting still does not confirm BO Team’s claims about disabled equipment or internal access.
Russian internet provider SkyNet reports outages after cyberattack claimed by Ukrainian hackers
Petersburg's major internet providers said its network had been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since October 6, affecting services including online gaming, voice calls and video conferencing.