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Hackers continue to target Russia with cyberattacks, defacing Russian television to show pro-Ukrainian messages, and taking down video streaming site RuTube.
During Russian President Putin’s speech at today’s “Victory Day” military parade, pro-Ukrainian hacking groups defaced Russian online television’s schedule page to display anti-war messages.
Russian citizens who tried to access television schedules through their smart TVs read messages accusing the Kremlin of propaganda and that their hands were stained with blood from the violence in Ukraine.
This morning the programming page of Russian online television was hacked
The name of each program was changed to “On your hands is the blood of thousands of Ukrainians and their hundreds of murdered children. Television and the authorities lie. No to war.” pic.twitter.com/P2uCNz8cqa
– Francisco Scarr (@francis_scarr) May 9, 2022
Search engines that index TV schedules like Google or even Yandex picked up on these anti-war messages and passively spread them further online.
RuTube brought down in cyber attack
Russian video content provider RuTube also announced that its site was offline after suffering a cyber attack.
Visitors are shown a message that “the site is performing technical work” due to an attack when accessing the site. However, the service says attackers don’t touch all content and user data.
The situation is the same when trying to access RuTue from mobile or smart TV apps, so it appears to be a cyber attack on all of their servers and not just specific platforms.
At this time, the only official way to follow any developments on the RuTube attack is through the platform’s Telegram channel, which contains additional information.
Previous posts on Telegram explain that experts working on restoring RuTube systems confirm that video files from the service were not accessible by threat actors and remain intact.
The attack is characterized as “powerful”, but its type is undetermined and RuTube did not provide an estimate of when the recovery process will be complete.
“Following the websites of Russian departments, which have been constantly subjected to cyberattacks for the past two months, hackers have reached RUTUBE. Video hosting has suffered a powerful cyberattack. At the moment it is not possible to access the platform”. -RuTube
While cyberattacks against Russia have been constant since the beginning of the war in February 2022, today was a day with great symbolism for the country’s national pride, so hacktivists who oppose the invasion stepped up their efforts.
At this time, none of the known hacktivist groups have claimed responsibility for any of the cyberattacks, so they could be foreign actors, internal dissidents, or both.
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