Anonymous takes .ru government websites offline

I'm not very familiar with who Anonymous is and what they did in the past. But can't any hacker group just do this and claim they're Anonymous?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mil.ru&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mil.ru&#x2F;</a> is returning a 418 (&quot;I&#x27;m a teapot&quot;)

Judging by this unverified video, TV channels were playing Ukrainian songs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;uniannet&#x2F;32413" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;uniannet&#x2F;32413</a><p>The people in the video are complaining about it:<p>– It’s all of them [channels]?<p>– Yep<p>– Damn

Off topic question: Has anyone managed to hack into any aircraft or tanks yet? I vaguely recall some US tanks were using Microsoft Windows and also vaguely recall that the RU <i>borrowed</i> some US battle tech. Did the RU also borrow some US fighter tech? Not suggesting harming anyone but forcing the landing gear locked deployed and flaps to 100% should be entertaining if feasible? Make tanks <i>dance</i> to a tik-tok video? Tik-tok on every HUD?

I wonder if this was really &quot;Anonymous&quot; (with regards to who runs the Twitter page) or a collective effort with non-affiliated individuals. Ukraine has listed websites they asked &quot;friends of Ukraine&quot; to try DDos including such that have been down [1]. Anonymous (again, those who run the Twitter page) seemingly lied [2] earlier about a Ministry of Defense leak which they swiftly took down the tweet of [3].<p>[1] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;itarmyofukraine2022&#x2F;5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.me&#x2F;itarmyofukraine2022&#x2F;5</a><p>[2] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;hexdefined&#x2F;status&#x2F;1497327552666673152" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;hexdefined&#x2F;status&#x2F;149732755266667...</a><p>[3] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220225193536&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;youranontv&#x2F;status&#x2F;1497273131567828992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20220225193536&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.c...</a>

military websites are of negligible strategic value. It’s like saying “Anonymous captures crates of russian military recruitment pamphlets”.

Can anoyone currently in the Russian IP space confirm the effects of this?

For what it&#x27;s worth <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosneft.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosneft.com</a> is down for me, I wanted to fw to a friend a press-release from December 2021 (or that&#x27;s what the Google SERPs show me as the date) where Rosneft the company was celebrating BP (the British energy company) increasing its shares in Rosneft to more than 20% or such.

Other than some internet street cred in a show of solidarity, what&#x27;s the point? It&#x27;s not like Putin is going to decide to stop invading and pull back because some governmental website was taken offline.<p>It&#x27;s not like they have disrupted in field command and control, communications, etc of the attacking forces. It&#x27;s not like they&#x27;ve shud down the power to the offices of those in charge, or taken over Putin&#x27;s personal bank accounts, or anything useful at all.<p>Do the people of Ukraine benefit at all from this? Does this show NATO leaders that they have no backbone?

I tried opening government.ru and the page is still loading (been about 2-3 minutes for me)

Wow, it was fascinating to read some of the headline spins on the RT site.

how does someone go about doing this? yesterday news of RT.com being similarly hacked or being down. i mean sure you can do phishing and stuff but how do you do a lot of websites at once? ddos?

This is like putting the Ukrainian flag on your Facebook profile picture - it does nothing in the real world. Ukrain nians humanitarian help and other tangible support, not this &quot;oh, see, I&#x27;ve done something&quot; pretend-a-care.

These types of internet attacks amount to nothing but advertising revenue for media companies, as mentioned by many commenters; however, they occur during war time which means they are considered a direct attack, just as if a rocket had been launched, which makes the offender state an enemy engaged in the war. Everyone must consider the risk factor of such attacks as retaliation is imminent and much more severe.<p>I am more than sure Putin’s army has been preparing for all scenarios for years.

&gt; Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin&#x27;s state censorship machine.<p>How does taking sites offline free people of censorship?

With Russian hacking and ransomeware attacks running rampart I don’t understand why we are still peering them same goes for North Korea and China. I know, I know VPNs and shit but we still get an insane amount of knocks from Russia and China.

It would be wise to wait a beat before determining who your targets are. There is still yet much to be revealed.