A group of 'patriotic' Russian hackers say they revel in causing chaos with cyber-attacks on Ukraine.
That was the message greeting visitors to dozens of Ukrainian websites on Wednesday afternoon.Naturally, fingers quickly pointed towards Moscow - Russia's cyber army once again accused of hacking to spread fear and confusion online as troops massed on Ukraine's borders.
"Considering everyone is attacking Ukraine servers. I am thinking we should cause some disruption too?" he posted on social media. Ransomware attacks which scramble the data on computer networks are far more serious than the sorts of things Dmitry's team have done so far. On 15 and 16 February more DDoS attacks temporarily took down websites for two banks and the Ukrainian army. TheOn Wednesday 23 February websites for numerous government ministries and financial services organisations were hit with another wave of DDoS attacks. Security researchers alsoOn Friday 25 February Ukraine's
According to one source versed in underground hacker forums, a "Ukrainian cyber-army and a handful of Ukrainian hacktivists" caused disruption to Russian military website http://mil.ru/.
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