Mega hack shuts down Putin’s online state media – POLITICO
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  • @[email protected]English
    76•3 months ago

    State-owned news outlet Gazeta(dot)ru reported that the Ukrainian-linked hacker group “sudo rm -RF” was behind the attack.

    HACK THE PLANET RUSSIANS

    Edit: Removed direct link.

    • @P1nkmanEnglish
      48•3 months ago

      I’m certain someone working there typed “sudo rm -RF” into the console, deleting everything, and they blame it on a “hacker group”.

      • @NegativeInfEnglish
        28•3 months ago

        I think it’s a funny AF name. If not for the little Bobby Tables of it all. Somewhere, some news aggregator accidentally purged everything.

        • CodexEnglish
          28•3 months ago

          This is why you should never allow your terminal to execute news headlines directly. You’re definitely going to want to sandbox your RSS autoexecutor.

  • @LetmeEnglish
    20•3 months ago

    I read MAGA hack, and didn’t blink an eye

  • @WrenFeathersEnglish
    11•3 months ago

    “Mega hack” is a thing now?

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 months ago

      I thought it was something to do with Kim Dotcom’s Mega at first. Such a dumb headline.

    • @WilshireOPEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      It’s shorter than Super Cyber Sabotage

      • @WrenFeathersEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        “Ultra-Mega-Super-Gyro-Hack-3000 v: 2.3.6”

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    I don’t watch TV myself, but people report that this attack was overestimated by journos for catchy headlines. The web player on their site is broken, and we don’t know if the claim about whiping their backups is true, but the stream of bullshit is going on on both cabel and internet platforms. Maybe, they now manage it by putting way more effort than usual, but Ostankino is still standing towering over Mordor, cursing everything in it’s long shadow. There’s a suggestion, that such a strike would first and foremost target russian speakers accross the borders, like vatniks in EU.

    https://reddit.com/comments/1fy2f14

  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 months ago

    Why would Putin shut down his own operation?!

    Ahhhhh, “mega hack” doesn’t refer to Putin, oops 🤷

  • @EtterraEnglish
    8•2 months ago

    Russian hackers attack Russian hackers over Russian hackers using Russian hackers against Russian hackers.