The cyber war of Anonymous and other hacker groups against Russia, with some hits landed in the last few hours. Indeed, it seems that Anonymous has shared over 360 thousand files of Roskomnadzor, the Russian censorship agency. But other hacker groups are also continuing to attack the Kremlin, with demonstrative actions.
Anonymous releases 800GB of Russian censorship data
Already from the first hours of the cyber war declared by Anonymous against the Kremlinan important target was Roskomnadzor. This body handles the censorship by Moscow of information that the Russian population can receive. In recent weeks, he has been blocking any information that does not fit into Putin’s propaganda narrative on the conflict in Ukraine.
Anonymous hackers have already attacked the sites of this Russian government service, making them go offline and blocking their work. But now it appears that Anonymous has 360,000 files from the Roskomnadzor section were released covering the region of the Bashkiria. They are information on the numbers of the conflict, the images and all the press coverage that Moscow has censored to prevent the free information of its citizens.
I file, circa 820GB of datawere also shared on Substack sooner than expected, to avoid that with the possibility of Russia leaving the internet in the next few days it becomes impossible to communicate them with the Russian population.
About this, Anonymous also announced service mail.190.in to send emails to random addresses of Russian citizens, as had happened in recent days with SMS. In an attempt to disseminate information on the conflict.
Not only Anonymous: other hackers also bypass censorship
Besides Anonymous, there are many other hacker groups fighting the regime in Russia. Among these GhostSecalready known in the past for attacks against l’ISIS. In these hours, the group would have devised a new way to communicate with the Russian population: hacking printers.
Indeed they have explained that you have already sent to over 100 wireless printers in Russia a series of messages to members of the Russian government and army, trying to incite a revolt against the Kremlin. Starting with the words: “This is not your war. This is your government’s war. Who is lying to your brothers and sisters ”. According to the group, they will soon reach other printers that will be hacked. And they specified that they would all be devices in government and military offices, without attacking the population.
The other attacks by the hacker collective
In addition to these latest operations, Anonymous has been continuing the cyber war for weeks, with several attacks in cyber warfare against the Kremlin and in support of the Ukrainian population. In addition, it refers to information on the conflict on Twitter, Telegram and other platforms. And it looks like they are preparing “something big” according to what was presented on Twitter.
However, we would like to point out that much of the information on the telematic conflict is difficult to verify independently. Between the Moscow censorship and the fact that hackers remain anonymous, it becomes difficult to verify the authenticity of all information. So always take it with a grain of salt the news about this cyber war, with a still very uncertain outcome.
List of past attacks:
- February 25 Anonymous publishes the data of the Russian Ministry of Defense (perhaps already leaked in the past)
- Hit the Gazprom sitethe main supplier of Russian gas
- In Belarusthe site of the leading manufacturer of Tetraedr weapons ends offline. Services railway vanno ko
- Offline the sites of the Ministry of Justice and Energy Russians
- Online over 40 thousand documents in Russian del Russian Nuclear Safety Institute
- Information from over 20 thousand current accounts of the Russian state bank SberBank they end up on the net
- Blocked the site bestchange.rupreventing you from converting rubles into cryptocurrencies
- Various Russian media attacked, including TASS, rbc.ru, kommersant.ru, fontanka.ru e iz.ru.
- Electric car charging stations in Russia hit, with messages in support of Ukraine
- The navigation of the yatch of the Russian president ‘Graceful’ Hacker is coming
- Anonymous ha posted the frequencies of Russian military short-range radios
- IPublished of the data to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development
- The affiliated collective NB65 block the space agency website Roscosmos
- Anonymous would have recovered the Russian invasion plansapproved on February 18
- Affected over 2,500 Russian sites by online activists, including the website of the government established in Crimea
- Hit the site of theRussian Space Research Institute (IKI)
- Published i personal data of 120,000 soldiers Russians
- Anonymous publishes videos about the conflict in Ukraine on streaming services and Russian TV channels
- Opens an SMS service to reach the Russian population, over 5 million messages sent
- Troll faces drawn on Russian military radio communication systems
- Hacked the ventilation system at Orangescada
- Anonymous took over 400+ webcams, displaying messages about the conflict