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Hackers paralyzed the work of online services of one of the largest media holdings in Russia
The online services of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) were subjected to an “unprecedented hacker attack” on the night of October 7. This was reported by the press service of the media holding in a conversation with TASS.
According to RBC-Ukraine, the anonymous pro-Ukrainian hacker group of Sudo RM-RF, "which has already repeatedly powerfully beat in the Russian Federation, took the responsibility for Kiberataka. It is noted that Kiberataka on the night of October 7 is “a gift to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on his birthday.”
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On the morning of October 7, in social networks and on the Downloadetector.ru website, Russians began to massively complain about interruptions in the work of Russia-1, Russia-24, Culture, Carousel, as well as the Vesti FM and the Service “See”.
“The entire news complex“ Russia 1 ”does not work on the Yamsky field since 5 in the morning. The central controller and all the servers flew. The graduation brigades left for Shabolovka, ”wrote the reader of the telegram channel of the journalist Alexander Plyushchev.
The “Russian Agency” also reported about failure in the work of Russia 1. The publication noticed that the microphone worked poorly in the release at 11:00 at the leading news program. According to the publication, due to the cyber attack, the problems began on the Russia 24 television channel. "Agency" writes that from 6:00 to 10:25 "The TV channel showed only archival videos, in particular about Crimea."
“Instead of morning news, the broadcaster showed the documentary“ War for Memory ”of 2020. Also, one of the issues of the program “But there was a case in the war” was aired, in which the Russian military talk about life at the front. The first news appeared only at 10:25, when the channel showed the plot from the “released” Ugledar, ”the agency said.
The publication notes that last Monday, September 30, news stories went to Russia-24 every half an hour in the morning.
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According to the source of Gazeta.ru, the Internet and telephony did not work in the VGTRK offices in the morning. “This is for a long time. I heard that they wiped everything from the servers, including backups. They have been working in Avrale from 6 in the morning. The problem, as I understand it, is very serious, and the restoration will take a lot of time, ”said the source of the newspaper.ru.
Later, the press service of the VGTRK told TASS that the hacker attack on the online services of the VGTRK did not inflict a “significant damage” of the work of the media holding.
“Despite attempts to interrupt the broadcasting of federal television channels and the holding radio stations, everything works as usual, there is no significant threat. The holding specialists are working to eliminate the consequences of this harmful intervention, ”the press service said.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova also reacted to the incident. She accused the “defenders of the rights of journalists and freedom of speech”, in particular the State Department, the OSCE, “Collective Brussels” and the European Council, in ignoring the problems that federal channels encountered in the morning.
“All of them were supposed to perform in a collective appeal regarding how unacceptable and contradicts the logic, common sense and all international law similar attacks. But, as we perfectly understand, they will not do this. Because they are sure that the collective West is sitting and rubbing their hands, ”she told reporters.
According to her, the Russian federal media for the West "have long become the object of a real attack." “We know this, we counteract them, and when we need to take retaliatory measures,” Zakharova said. She noted that the department will raise this issue at international sites, such as the UN and UNESCO.
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