Roscosmos.ru Is offline
Is the @roscosmos website down? https://t.co/BTTUCbcZDF #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H5JSqBpyww
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 28, 2022
Is the @roscosmos website down? https://t.co/BTTUCbcZDF #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/H5JSqBpyww
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February 28, 2022
There are a lot of self-proclaimed ‘cyber-warriors’ running around vandalising or DDoSing official Russian government sites. It’s mostly symbolic but I bet it is annoying.
The more annoying the better.
One group hacked Russian TV and had it playing Ukrainian folk music.
Much of this is being done by the hacker collective Anonymous, including the gov’t website and the TV hack. They have declared cyber war on Putin’s regime and are proving to be quite effective. (e.g., they hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense site and downloaded & published its entire user database, including names, email, phone numbers, hashed passwords, …)
I heard others say that too but I haven’t been able to find a source of that claim. So, I’m not sure how trustworthy it is. Note: I’m specifically referring to the part you have in ()’s.
Would be nice to see everything .ru offline.
The internet itself should not be cut off, however. It’s important to keep lines of communication open, e.g, for groups opposing the war.
I doubt the Russian space industry will ever recover from this debacle unless it teams up with companies from an independent and free Ukraine.
The best-case result of all this would have meaningful regime change in Russia. It would be wonderful, but I’m not holding my breath.
If the Russian are off line or the lights go out at the Kremlin you can thank US Cyber Command. They do things you can’t believe.
I agree that as much pressure be applied to Putin and his crony oligarchs as possible, but a cyber attack of that magnitude by US Cyber Command could realistically be interpreted by Moscow as a direct act of war and result in retaliatory cyber attacks against American infrastructure and quickly escalate to a ‘hot’ war real fast.
I would hope these kinds of attacks are left to un-aligned groups like ‘Anonymous’ and not state-sponsored computer hackers or governments.