Anonymous claims responsibility for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Russian state news site
The hacking group known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for cyberattacks that briefly shut down Russian government websites. The attacks were in retaliation for the Ukraine invasion, hackers said. Russia’s state news site RT confirmed the malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The news agency stated that they had ‘been able to withstand the attack’.
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