Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claimed on July 16 that it had hacked nearly 100 Russian websites that support the Kremlin’s war effort, taking them offline and replacing their homepages with a picture of a bloody pig’s head.

The intelligence agency said the operation was carried out on July 15 with the help of “the volunteer hacker community.”

“The cyberattack was aimed at destroying internal information of companies that serve Russian public sector clients involved in the war against Ukraine,” it said in a post on Telegram.

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  • @JeeBaiChow
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    202 months ago

    Interesting. But as a prank, it’d be better if they just made some innocuous changes that just sow confusion. Kinda like redirecting a press conference to a war zone.

    • @[email protected]
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      352 months ago

      Anonymous is an idea, and never is or was a specific group of people. Anyone can become them at any point.

      Also The hackers are clearly doing their job, the only difference is there just not wearing a mask doing so.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        122 months ago

        the only difference is there just not wearing a mask doing so.

        Agent 92529, congratulations on blowing your cover. You now made it obvious you’ve been watching the group.

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    22 months ago

    That’s actually hilarious. Especially since basically all information inside Russia is controlled by the Russian government.

  • @Wrench
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    -42 months ago

    “The cyberattack was aimed at destroying internal information of companies that serve Russian public sector clients involved in the war against Ukraine,”

    How do high-school pranks do that? It’s just mildly embarrassing / annoying.