Anonymous Hacker Group Targets Russian State Media Over Ukraine Invasion
NDTV
The Anonymous hacker group targeted the websites of Russian state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, as well as of several newspapers.
Hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility on Monday for disrupting the work of websites of pro-Kremlin Russian media in protest of the invasion of Ukraine.
The group targeted the websites of state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, as well as taking over websites of newspapers Kommersant and Izvestiya and Forbes Russia magazine.
It posted messages appealing to Russians to try to stop the war and not participate as fighters.
"In a few years we'll live like in North Korea. What's in it for us? For Putin to make the history books? It isn't our war, let's end it!", said a message in Russian posted on Forbes Russia's site.