Anonymous, a hacker organisation, has taken down multiple Russian government websites, including the state-run Russia Today news agency. Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous collective said that they had initiated cyber operations that brought down RT.com, as well as the Kremlin, Russian government, and Russian defence ministry websites, for a limited period of time.
The attack, according to RT.com, slowed down certain websites while taking others offline for “extended periods of time.” The majority of RT’s coverage of the situation in Ukraine has been pro-Russian, with fireworks and joyous celebrations in the newly captured territory.
MPs in the United Kingdom have declared the TV channel to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “personal propaganda tool” and have called for its banning. The majority of RT’s coverage of the situation in Ukraine has been pro-Russian, with fireworks and joyous celebrations in the newly captured territory. MPs in the United Kingdom have declared the TV channel to be Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “personal propaganda tool” and have called for its banning.
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault used, according to Internet security expert Robert Potter, involves numerous servers overloading a targeted website so that no other traffic could get through. DDoS assaults are thought to be simple to launch and fight against. Switching off international traffic to a website is one basic solution, which could explain why it appears to be simpler to reach RT.com from within Russia than from outside.
Mr Potter, on the other hand, believes we’ll see more Anonymous “cyber activism” in the future. Anonymous is a decentralised group with no hierarchy or leadership that has been known to attack a variety of targets, including the CIA, Islamic State, and the Church of Scientology in the past. Smoke billows from a newly shelled building. If the Ukraine conflict worsened, an Anonymous video broadcast on February 15 threatened to “hostage” Russia’s industrial control systems.