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Slashdot: Anonymous Launches Attacks Against Russia and Pledges Support For Ukraine

Anonymous Launches Attacks Against Russia and Pledges Support For Ukraine
Published on February 27, 2022 at 12:04AM
A long-time Slashdot reader shares this report Friday from the Independent: Hacking group Anonymous has said that it will support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, and has already claimed an attack on the state-controlled TV network Russia Today.... While the fight on the ground was happening, Russia Today's servers were taken offline. The broadcaster has been criticised for putting out "propaganda" to the extent that the UK government has asked media regulator Ofcom to review its output. Anonymous claimed credit for the attack, posting on Twitter that it took down the "propaganda station... in response to Kremlin's brutal invasion". The group did not respond to The Independent's request for comment. At the time of the tweet RT was briefly unavailable, before returning online without images. Currently, the broadcaster is online and appears to be operating as normal. "After the statement by Anonymous, RT's websites became the subject of a massive DDoS attack from nearly 100 million devices, mostly based in the US", RT told The Independent in a statement. "Due to the hack there were temporary website access limitations for some users, yet RT promptly resolved these issues...." Due to the nature of the Anonymous group, it can sometimes be difficult to verify their attacks as anyone can claim to be a member of the community without revealing their identity. Early Friday morning Anonymous also tweeted that "The Russian Ministry of Defense website is down."

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