The Mir payment system and its operator NSPK were subjected to a large-scale DDoS attack, found out Kommersant . Its purpose is to overload the system and cause card service to fail. According to the newspaper, a large-scale attack could have been staged by Ukrainian hackers against the background of reports about the refusal of a number of banks from "friendly" countries to work with the payment system. To do this, attackers generate traffic to systems using browsers or primitive DDoS tools.

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Mobilization in Russia: analysis of the authorities, real numbers and the situation on the boundaries Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation @ The past week will be no less fateful for Russia than the last week of February 2022. The defeat in the Kharkov region and the exhaustion of the personnel of the warring army forced the Kremlin to actually abandon the concept of a “special operation”, which is “conducted by professional military ”.

After the announcement of the mobilization, air tickets from Russia to visa-free countries have risen in price several times, but even at these prices it is almost impossible to buy them in the coming days. Russians wishing to leave the country rushed to the open land borders, which formed many kilometers of queues. We tell you what is happening in the most popular destinations. What's happened?