On the night of June 5, the website of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Community Services of Russia was hacked. This, “Kommersant“.
The post states that it was hacked by the DumpForums.com team on the section’s home page.
The publication emphasizes that the hackers demanded to pay 0.5 bitcoin (973 thousand rubles) before June 7, otherwise the data of the ministry employees could be made public.
The site is currently not open. On the main page of the department, it is stated that technical studies continue.
Anonymous hacker group, which was among the first to declare “cyber war” on Russia, taken Take responsibility for the attack on Rutube.
It is unknown whether Anonymous really hacked the video hosting infrastructure or just PR. It is noteworthy, however, that the hackers did not publish a single sample of Rutube’s documents.
The administration of the service reported that on the night of May 9, the national video hosting RUTUBE was subject to an APT attack (targeted prolonged attack of increasing complexity), as a result of which users lost access to the platform.