Knysh wanted to help his country when Russia invaded in February. And he was happy to use his hacking skills.
The team has participated in other hacks. Knysh says they have sometimes joined with other hacker gangs to hack and leak Russian military and government databases. And have tricked Russian TV stations into playing news clips about Ukrainian civilian casualties.
Geolocate plan works in Melitopol attack
Last month, Hackyourmom was credited with duping Russian soldiers to get their location in Russian occupied Melitopol.
The hackers were able to establish a relationship with the Russian soldiers with the fake identities. And eventually convinced several of the soldiers to send photos.
Knysh said that the Russian soldiers were bragging and “They send [a] lot of shit to ‘girls,’ to prove that they are warriors.”
Through the pictures, the hackers were able to identify where they were able to geolocate them. And found they were taken in a remote Russian military base in Southern Ukraine near Melitopol.
