On the identical day Russia celebrated its function in defeating Nazi Germany, most of the nation’s on-line platforms had been defaced in protest of the warfare in Ukraine. The Washington Post reported on Monday that Russians with good TVs noticed channel listings changed with a message implicating them within the ongoing battle. “The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands,” the message learn, in line with the outlet. “TV and authorities are lying. No to war.”
In addition to good TVs, the obvious hack targetted among the nation’s largest web firms, together with Yandex. Hackers additionally went after Rutube, Russia’s various to YouTube. “Our video hosting has undergone a powerful cyberattack. At the moment, it is not possible to access the platform,” the service stated in a press release it posted on its Telegram channel. Rutube later acknowledged it had remoted the assault and that its content material library wasn’t accessed within the incident.
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February twenty fourth, the nation has come underneath constant assault from hackers. In the early days of the battle, Anonymous claimed accountability for a sequence of DDoS assaults that left a number of official authorities web sites, together with one belonging to the Ministry of Defence, inaccessible. It’s believed Anonymous was additionally liable for an incident that noticed a number of Russian state TV channels play the Ukranian nationwide anthem. At the identical time, Ukraine, with assist from Microsoft and different western firms, just lately managed to stop Russian navy hackers from disrupting one of many nation’s power suppliers.