Multinational companies around the world voluntarily pulled their business out of Russia after president Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, but the hacker group Anonymous is determined to give any stragglers a nudge. The hacktivist group recently leaked data, emails and passwords of food giant Nestlé’s customers and warned other companies that continued doing business in Russia that they would be next. “We call on all companies that continue to operate in Russia by paying taxes to the budget of the Kremlin’s criminal regime: Pull out of Russia!”...
Ukraine accuses Russia of using phosphorus bombs – ombudsman Article influenced from the original post by The Mirror Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman accused Russia on Sunday of using banned phosphorus munitions in an overnight attack on the town of Popasna in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region. Reuters had reported they were not immediately able to verify her statement. The ombudswoman, Liudmila Denisova, shared a photograph purporting to show the alleged attack, but did not say if Ukraine had concrete evidence. “The bombing of a civilian city by the Russian attackers...
Anonymous and its affiliate groups have sent 7 million text messages to Russian citizens about the war in Ukraine while another group has hacked 400+ security cameras in the country with anti-war messages. Anonymous hacktivists are claiming to have hacked into hundreds of public surveillance cameras installed across Russia to post messages against the Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and in support of Ukraine. It is worth noting that the hacktivists originally announced the hack on March 7th however at the time of publishing this article, most targeted cameras were...
The Russian government has established its own TLS certificate authority (CA) to address issues with accessing websites that have arisen in the wake of sanctions imposed by the west following the country’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine. According to a message posted on the Gosuslugi public services portal, the Ministry of Digital Development is expected to provide a domestic replacement to handle the issuance and renewal of TLS certificates should they get revoked or expired. The service is offered to all legal entities operating in Russia, with the certificates delivered to...
The popular hacker collective Anonymous continues to target Russian entities, a few hours ago the group hacked into the most popular Russian streaming services to broadcast war footage from Ukraine and demonstrate to Russians the atrocity of the invasion ordered by Putin. Russian citizens ignore that their army is attacking the Ukrainian population and many children are dying. The collective remarked that it wants peace and wants only to hit Putin and not Russian citizens, it wants to stop the military invasion of Ukraine. The group is also aware...
Anonymous and its affiliates continue to target Russia and Belarus, it is also targeting the Russian disinformation machine Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. The attacks were conducted as part of the #OpRussia launched by the collective after the violent and illegitimate invasion of Ukraine. The popular collective, along with white hat hackers and researchers who responded to the call to arms against Russia, also targeted prominent cybercrime...
Ukraine has created what is described as an “IT army” to defend against Russian hackers and to launch counter operations against cyber threats. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by cyberattacks targeting the country’s services and infrastructure, including DDoS attacks and destructive wiper malware campaigns – leading to the Ukrainian government calling for volunteers to aid with cybersecurity. But it has also asked for support in conducting offensive cyber operations back towards Russia. “We are creating an IT army,” Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister of Ukraine said in a tweet at the...
Russian troops have launched a major assault on Ukraine and while their forces battle in the physical world for control over various cities and regions, a battle is also taking place in cyberspace. Just before Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian government websites were disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and cybersecurity firms reported seeing a new piece of destructive malware on hundreds of devices in the country. The malware used in this attack has been named HermeticWiper and it has been described by experts as a wiper malware disguised as...
WHEN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked war against Ukraine this week, he did so with a warning that any interference from the West would be met with a response “never seen” in history. The implied nuclear threat has little if any precedent over the last several decades, and while the Kremlin is far more likely to unleash cyberattacks, it was a chilling indication of how far Putin may be willing to escalate. But first, let’s talk about Zelensky’s recent speech. In a speech earlier Friday, as Russian troops were entering...
The popular collective Anonymous declared war on Russia for the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of cyber attacks calling to action its members The Anonymous collective is calling to action against Russia following the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine. The famous groups of hacktivists are also calling for action Russian citizens inviting them to express their dissent to Putin. Anonymous Declares Cyber War against Russia “The Anonymous collective is officially in” cyber war “against the Russian government.” This was announced directly by the international network of hackers through...
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