Anonymous hacker group targets Russian state media


The latest cyberattacks come after Thursday’s hacking of RT state-funded television channel. — AFP Relaxnews

MOSCOW: Hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility on Feb 28 for disrupting the work of websites of pro-Kremlin Russian media in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.

The group targeted the websites of state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, as well as taking over websites of newspapers Kommersant and Izvestiya and Forbes Russia magazine.

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