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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnonymous launches cyber war on Russia and has disabled several websites
Hacking group Anonymous has declared cyber war against Vladimir Putins government in response to his invasion of Ukraine.
The collective then said it had disabled several websites of Russian government, the Kremlin, the Duma, and the Ministry of Defence.
It also claimed to have taken down the website of Kremlin-backed TV channel Russia today, which broadcasts in Britain.
Earlier this week the news network was described by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as Putins personal propaganda tool.
When Metro.co.uk attempted to access the site this morning, it said it was inaccessible and displayed an error message saying this site cant be reached.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/25/anonymous-declares-cyber-war-on-putin-and-says-it-took-down-rt-website-16173346/
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underpants
(182,284 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,767 posts)There have been comments about the lack of information from Russia on several news sites
Such as:
AP: NEW YORK (AP) For journalists, the confusion surrounding Russias attack on Ukraine deepened the challenge of covering it and made one CNN reporters stumbling upon an airport under attack Thursday all the more remarkable.
While Russias invasion had been an ominous possibility for months, it unfolded with little reliable information from the attackers. Many reporters depended upon sporadic audio and video of bombs exploding in the distance, and details from Ukrainians and American intelligence, to try to tell the story of citizens in a Western-styled democracy suddenly plunged into war.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-media-43464565f664c1e49c1d515bb18fddeb
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)but other browsers, such as Brave, do.
So this is not DDoS. Perhaps it is not "Anonymous" if such an anonymous anarchist organisation exists. But it certainly involves Google's software.
Beachnutt
(7,189 posts)also
Jilly_in_VA
(9,854 posts)should put a bug in the ear of the white hat hackers. That is all.
SallyHemmings
(1,813 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)Even tastier strategy!
Came here to say that. ASAP
Duppers
(28,094 posts)dajoki
(10,678 posts)someone in that collective should start doing the same to some of the right wing sites in the United States.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)They don't care what bad guys say; they just show up when bad guys act.
pandr32
(11,447 posts)bluestarone
(16,723 posts)The Russian military communications?
OMGWTF
(3,901 posts)which gave us Obama instead of Rmoney. IIRC, Rmoney didn't even have a concession speech written because KKKarl assured him it was in the bag.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)Obama-Romney was a landslide and Obama would have won without Ohio.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,506 posts)Riverman100
(270 posts)have you guys been? Now to disable every russian way to communicate
Ford_Prefect
(7,830 posts)The troll farm in Petersburg better watch out, too.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)SpankMe
(2,937 posts)Conducting a DDoS attack is pretty straightforward (as hackers go). I'd like to see Anonymous getting into Russian banks, power systems, the military and other important systems and really bring down capabilities.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)How is their Operation Avenge Assange coming along?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)After Wikileaks published the Panama-Papers, a russian official casually mentioned on TV that if Wikileaks were to try something like that on Russia, russian agents would simply murder everybody at Wikileaks and be done with it.
So, what did Wikileaks do next?
They moved their databases to servers in Russia... to a back-alley warehouse in Moscow... owned and operated by a well-known russian cyber-criminal who hosts scammers and hackers on his servers... and russian law-enforcement is somehow ignoring this criminal living in the middle of Moscow and allows him to go about his business...
JudyM
(29,122 posts)Ugh.
artemisia1
(756 posts)take responsibility for it. Nevertheless, good for them!