Hackers have taken over Russian TV channels and media websites to broadcast messages opposing Russia’s invasion of its western neighbor, Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a large-scale assault on Ukraine on 24 February. Ukraine’s well being ministry mentioned on Sunday that a minimum of 352 civilians, together with 14 youngsters, have been killed within the assault, and an extra 1684 individuals have been wounded.
Whereas many international locations have imposed sanctions upon Russia within the wake of the assault, hackers are hitting the nation with a string of cyber-attacks.
State-owned information company TASS and each day newspaper Kommersant had been quickly knocked offline on Monday, whereas St Petersburg-based information outlet Fontanka’s content material was changed with a message addressed to Russia’s residents that learn, “This isn’t our conflict, let’s cease it!”
Different components of the message learn: “Putin makes us lie and places us in peril. We had been remoted from the entire world, they stopped shopping for oil and gasoline.
“In a number of years we’ll dwell like in North Korea. What’s it for us? To place Putin within the textbooks?”
Worldwide hacking group Nameless, which declared “cyber conflict” towards Russia on Thursday, claimed duty for the hacks on TASS, Izvestia, Fontaka, RBC and Kommersant. All of the websites suffered outages, whereas a number of displayed the message.
Nameless said: “We would like the Russian individuals to know that we all know it’s exhausting for them to talk out towards their dictator for concern of reprisals.
“We, as a collective need solely peace on the planet. We would like a future for all of humanity. So, whereas individuals across the globe smash your web suppliers to bits, perceive that it’s fully directed on the actions of the Russian authorities and Putin.”
Ukraine’s state telecommunications company introduced on Saturday that the web site of Russia’s media regulator had been pressured offline and that Russian TV channels had been hacked to play Ukrainian music.
In accordance with The Kyiv Unbiased, Ukraine’s state telecommunications company introduced on Saturday that six Russian authorities web sites, together with the Kremlin’s, had been additionally down.
Nameless claimed on Sunday to have additionally hacked into the community of Russian firm Tvingo Telecom, disrupting its provide of gasoline.
