Russia denies Ministry of Defense website hacked - February 27, 2022

[sharon sanders]

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00:29 02/26/2022 (updated: 00:36 02/26/2022)
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The Ministry of Defense denied the information about the hacking of its website
The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the information about the hacking of its website



MOSCOW, February 26 - RIA Novosti. The Russian Defense Ministry denied the information about the hacking of their website.

"The information disseminated in social networks by couch fighters for the victory of Ukraine about the alleged hacking of the website of the Russian Defense Ministry by the Anonymous hacker group and the "stealing" of personal data of employees of the military department is a fake that is primitive to laughter," the report says.



It is noted that no lists of personal data of military personnel and other employees of the RF Ministry of Defense are stored on the servers of the agency's website in principle. This is simply prohibited by Russian law, which Ukrainians do not know about.

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zhttps://ria.ru/20220226/sayt-1775192310.html

[Mary Wilson]

Russia partially restricts access to Facebook to ‘protect Russian media’

Fri 25 Feb 2022 12.51 EST
Dan Milmo, Kari Paul and agencies

... Meanwhile, Russia Today, the state-backed news service, confirmed its website had been hit by a cyber-attack after a Twitter account linked to the Anonymous hacker collective declared “cyberwar” against the Russian government.

The organisation said it had been subjected to “massive” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which render sites unreachable by bombarding them with spurious requests for information. It came as a Twitter account linked to Anonymous, @YourAnonOne, said the group was at war with the Kremlin.

Russia Today said: “After the statement by Anonymous, RT’s websites became the subject of massive DDoS attacks from some 100 million devices, mostly based in the US. Due to the attacks there might be temporary website access limitations for some users, yet RT is promptly resolving these issues.”

In a DDoS, a website is deluged with spurious requests for information – described by experts as akin to stuffing a thousand envelopes through a letterbox every second – that render the site unreachable. According to Craig Terron, a senior analyst at Recorded Future, which monitors cyber threats, the Russia Today site remained “intermittently available” on Friday, having gone down at 5pm (2pm GMT) Moscow time on Thursday.

“The website is intermittently available, with continued reports of users unable to access the website, as of 1330 Moscow time on February 25,” he said.

The Anonymous declaration came as Reuters reported that the government of Ukraine is asking for volunteers from the country’s hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops.

Anonymous also claimed on Friday to have hackedand leaked the database of the Russian Ministry of Defence website.

As Russian forces attacked cities across Ukraine, requests for volunteers began to appear on hacker forums on Thursday morning, as many residents fled the capital Kyiv. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/ukraine-hackers-defend-against-russia

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