Ukraine Hackers Disrupt Putin's Birthday

Uploaded on 2024-10-09 in TECHNOLOGY--Hackers, NEWS-Cybersecurity News, FREE TO VIEW

Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates the country's main national TV stations and its Rossiya-24 rolling 24-hours news channel was not available online on Monday 7th October. This was the result of a targeted attack, according to Ukrainian government sources.

Ukrainian hackers temporarily disabled Russian state television and radio online broadcasting services on Monday 7th, a date coinciding with Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday.

The attack affected state broadcaster VGTRK and disrupted internal services such as telephones as well as the online streaming services of prominent television and radio channels including Russia-1 and Russia-24.

VGTRK, which has said that its online service had come under cyber attack over-night and whose news channels provide many Russians with news on the war in Ukraine, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

A Ukrainian government source said Ukrainian hackers were responsible for the incident, which coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday.

"Ukrainian hackers 'congratulated' Putin on his birthday by carrying out a large-scale attack on the all-Russian state television and radio broadcasting company," the source told Reuters, asking not to be named.

Russian news outlet Gazeta.ru cited an unnamed source as saying that the cyberattack had targeted the online and internal services of VGTRK, which also owns and operates radio stations and many regional TV channels.

"Online broadcasting and internal services are down and even the Internet and telephony are not working. It's going to take a long time to fix," it quoted the source as saying.

Reuters     |     The Hacker News     |     Politico     |     SIlicon     |     The Moscow Times

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