Russia's invasion of Ukraine was again peppered with anonymous hackers who invaded Russia, this time the victims were streaming services and Russian news TV stations.
In the action that occurred on Monday (7/3), anonymous hackers hijacked a TV station to broadcast video footage of the Russian attack on Ukraine. The victims were Russian news TV stations such as Russia 24, Channel One, and Moscow 24, including video streaming sites.
"The hacking collective #Anonymous hacked into Russian streaming services such as Wink and Ivi (a kind of Netflix) and TV stations Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast footage of the attack from Ukraine," explained the @YourAnonNews account on Twitter, complete with screen recordings of evidence. .
The video shared by @YourAnonNews is accompanied by a message at the end of the video which reads: "Ordinary Russians don't agree with war" and asks Russians to oppose the invasion of Ukraine.
Shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin began his military operation into Ukraine, an anonymous hacker collective claimed to have started a cyberwar on the Russian government. They claim to be successful in doing a number of things, including shutting down the official Kremlin website on February 26.
The hack into Russian TV stations came after a campaign emerged on Twitter calling for keeping Russian citizens' information accessible to the global community. The campaign comes after the Russian government began to restrict access to information related to the invasion of Ukraine in that country.
The Russian government has indeed begun to restrict access to information that enters Russia since they started the invasion of Ukraine. One of them is by blocking access to Facebook and a number of foreign media.
They also enacted a new regulation on 'fake news', under which the Russian government can punish anyone who spreads false information regarding the invasion of Ukraine.
Under the regulation, those who spread false information can be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison or fined a maximum of 1.5 million rubles.