Week 3: Hacktivist groups continue cyber-war with Russia

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The researchers analyzed 100 Russian databases. And found, 92 had been compromised.

The websites belonged to retailers, Russian internet carriers, and intergovernmental agencies. This includes “Green Dot” (Зелёная точка) that which provides internet and digital TV services to 18 Russian cities. And contains 2.2 million records. 

Also impacted was the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The CIS center coordinates information. And regulatory practices on trade, finance, lawmaking, and security between Russian affiliated CIS Member States.

Fowler noted that ciscenter.org had been hacked.

“Many CIS files were erased, hundreds of folders were renamed to “putin_stop_this_war” and email addresses and administrative credentials were exposed,” said Fowler. He claimed the attack looked like 2020’s malicious “MeowBot” attacks. They “had no purpose except for a malicious script that wiped out data and renamed all the files.”

The report describes a widespread disruption of Russian online data. Another hacked database contained more than 270,000 names and email addresses.