Russia “is losing big” on the cyber-attack front, notes The weather. After claiming some hacks “symbolic” at the very beginning of the war in Ukraine, the collective Anonymous proceeds to “a real siphoning of sensitive data” that touches “key Russian institutions relating to energy, finance and the Internet”says the Swiss daily, which has seen some leaks.
On February 24, the first day of the invasion, Anonymous declared themselves “officially in cyberwar against the Russian government”. Iconic attacks followed, such as the hacking of television channels.
For the past few days, hackers from Anonymous and affiliated groups, “such as the Polish hacktivists Squad303 and the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, have gone much further”. On March 16, several gigabits of data were hacked into the