In the early hours of Monday morning, all of the company’s online broadcasting and internal services stopped working. Pool photo by Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin/EPA-EFE
Published October 7, 2024
Kremlin says specialists are working to figure out who attacked “critical infrastructure facility.”
Ukrainian-linked hackers hit Russian state broadcaster VGTRK with an “unprecedented” attack, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson said Monday.
In the early hours of Monday morning, all of the company’s online broadcasting and internal services stopped working, including the streaming services of prominent TV and radio channels such as Russia-1 and Russia-24.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed support for the Russian broadcasters and said specialists were working to determine who was responsible for the attack on what he called a “critical infrastructure facility.”
State-owned news outlet Gazeta.ru reported that the Ukrainian-linked hacker group “sudo rm -RF” was behind the attack.
The Russian state broadcaster’s press service acknowledged it had been the subject of a hack, but said “no significant damage was caused to the media holding’s operations.”
It added “everything is operating normally” again and that VGTRK specialists were “working to eliminate the consequences of this malicious interference.”
While Kyiv did not officially claim responsibility for the attack, a Ukrainian official provided some more details after being granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
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SOURCE: www.politico.eu
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Ukrainian-linked hackers have hit a Russian state media channel in an “unprecedented” cyberattack, according to reports.
Kyiv-based hacker group “sudo rm-RF” disabled Russian state broadcaster VGTRK’s online broadcasting and some internal services on Monday morning, news outlet Gazeta reported.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed support for the channel and said specialists were working to determine who was responsible for the attack.
“Our state media holding, one of the largest, has faced an unprecedented hacker attack on its digital infrastructure,” Mr Peskov said.
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SOURCE: www.independent.co.uk
