Ukraine-Russia, Anonymous and the cyber-war against Moscow

Anonymous at war alongside Ukraine against Russia. The collective took a pro-Kiev stance in the conflict triggered by the Russian invasion and announced its intervention with a series of tweets published on various profiles related to the movement. “Hackers from all over the world: target Russia in the name of Anonymous: let them know that we do not forgive and we do not forget”, reads one of the tweets calling for the intervention of hackers from all over the planet. The main action claimed by Anonymous in the last few hours is the attack on the website of the Russian Defense Ministry. The attack, according to cyber analysts, would have triggered the defenses available to Moscow in the event of a ‘virtual’ offensive: if the portal of the Ministry of Defense went haywire, therefore, it probably means that anti-virus technologies have been activated. -ddos from Russia. In this case, the protection mechanism makes it possible to make the resource accessible – in this case the ministry website – based on the location and country in which the user is located. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the site of the Russian Defense Ministry remained accessible to users within national borders. Anonymous, in any case, did not stop there. Scrolling through the timelines of the profiles attributable to the collective, however, there are messages relating to other successes that cyberwar would have produced: the Russian broadcaster RT and the arms manufacturer Tetraedr would have ended up in the network of hackers. The same treatment would have been reserved for a Belarusian company, a supplier to the Russian army.