The attacks were described as at least twice as powerful as any previous ones by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development and Communications.
“We are recording unprecedented attacks on the websites of government authorities,” the statement said. “If their capacity at peak times reached 500 GB earlier, it is now up to 1 TB. That is, two to three times more powerful than the most serious incidents of this type previously recorded.”Wednesday evening, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry website was defaced by hackers, who altered its content.
Also Wednesday, insults aimed at President Vladimir Putin and Russians over the situation in Ukraine were added to dozens of Russian judicial websites.Under recent Russian laws against spreading “fake news about the military,” the use of the words “war” or “invasion” to describe what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation in Ukraine” is punishable with hefty fines and years in prison.
A few days after Russia began its attack on Ukraine, the state-run news agency Tass was hacked and defaced with an ad urging people to “take to the streets against the war.” Russia’s main public services portal, Gosuslugi, had sustained more than 50 crippling denial-of-service attacks, the Russian Communications Ministry said on Feb. 26.
In early March, multiple other websites were hacked, including the Ministry of Culture, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Internet regulator Roskomnadzor.
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