Ukrainian military intelligence agents operated a mass cyberattack on Russian Internet providers on August 24 that disrupted the online platforms of dozens of industrial facilities in Russia, according to a source with the Kyiv Independent, who was authorized to speak on the matter.
During the recent cyber attack, there were at least 33 servers and 283 computers in offices at industrial facilities that were affected, 21 websites that have been taken offline and 15 cloud-based storages that have been destroyed. An online source has reported that the Ukrainian hackers have also left pro-Ukrainian messages on the affected platforms.
Users in Russia have complained that they have had issues with Rostelecom, one of the world’s largest digital service providers, and they have described poor Internet connections at MTC and Beeline, as well as Yandex, an international technology company and its services.
A Russian source told the newspaper that platforms hit by cyberattacks in the past support and finance Russia’s war against Ukraine.
According to the Telegram messaging app published by Solntsepyok, a group of activist hackers and “hacktivists” who exercised control at Kyivstar, launched the cyberattack and published screenshots that appear to support their claim that they had accessed the network.
In the past few months, Russia has denied being responsible for such cyberattacks on several occasions.
According to a statement released by Ukraine’s State Ser
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