On Victory Day, sites of a number of media were attacked by hackers who called "network hamsters"

Websites of a number of Russian media were subjected to DDOS Atak on May 9. In particular, the Echo of Moscow website in St. Petersburg and the website of the Rain TV channel suffered from the actions of the hackers. The responsibility for hacker attacks was taken by a certain organization called "hamsters".

"The site of the Echo of St. Petersburg is subjected to Ddos Atak from 6 in the morning. We apologize for interruptions in access," wrote radio station employees in the official microblog on Twitter . “There really is an attack, it began this morning. Technical support is fighting off it. We fight with varying success,” the site editor -in -chief Vasily Putskaln told Interfax .

The site of the St. Petersburg Internet Gazeta Fontanka.ru was also attacked. “From 8 in the morning there is an attack on our servers. The technical services are doing everything necessary. I think we can handle these problems, although the situation is non -trivial - the attack is powerful,” said the chief editor of the publication Alexander Gorshkov. "At present, we are preparing an application to law enforcement agencies. In this case, someone’s joke takes place, it is obvious to us, but targeted malicious actions aimed at closing access to the site for a while," he added.

The website of the Rain TV channel also does not open, when trying to download the main page, an inscription appears that technical work is carried out on the portal. "Dear friends, the site www.tvrain.ru is temporarily unavailable - we are ddos ​​-web. We apologize and do our best to return to our Internet prostrate within an hour," the Facebook TV channel said.

“Friends, the attack on the site turned out to be more serious than we thought. Now we are doing our best to return online,” the channel employees admitted in his next message.

In addition, periodic problems with access to sites arise at Novaya Gazeta, portals "ZAKS.ru", "MK.ru", "Ropolitics" and Forbes.ru.

The attack was taken by "network hamsters"

Responsibility for hacker attacks was taken by the previously unknown organization "hamsters". "As for the first time, when the website of the new newspaper was unavailable, we take the responsibility for the DDOS attack, we are network hamsters," the hackers said in the Echo of Petersburg's mailbox, the radio station officers wrote about this on the official VKontakte page.

As follows from the video posted on the Hamperch.com website, hackers devoted their attack on Victory Day, and its goal was to fight “all kinds of speculation and fraud of facts” so that the memory of people who gave their lives for their homeland “not offended by anything”. “I hope that the real patriots of our country will support us,” said the activist of Hams in the video. Representatives of the organization call themselves a community of people "any political beliefs advocating the purity of information and words in our country."

"Despite the loud statements of the editorial office of the" Novy ", as well as the ridiculous excuses of Kaspersky’s laboratory, the newspaper’s website is again not available. As in the first case, the responsibility for the attack of the News site is taken by the Hams, the organization said in a separate message on the attack on the website of the Novaya Gazeta. Activist, who does not show his person this time, states that the" Hamsjtops "are taking The responsibility for the previous attacks on the publication’s website promises that they will continue further.