The Anonymous hacker group has taken the responsibility of informing the people of Russia about the Invasion of Ukraine.
After declaring war on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Anonymous, a decentralized international activist, and hacktivist group has been relentless in its attacks on the Kremlin, undermining the country’s leadership and disrupting the country’s narrative on the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The most recent is a printer hack that enables the group to send a message across the country.
About the Hack By Anonymous
In a post on the microblogging site Twitter, Anonymous revealed the detailHackney the latest attack on Russia. “We have been printing anti-propaganda and tor installation instructions to printers all over #Russia for 2 hours, and printed 100,000+ copies so far. 15 people working on this op as we speak,” the tweet read.
The hack was confirmed in an interview conducted by International Business Time with one of the hacktivists, They also explained that the operation included PDFs printed on the hacked printers with a message informing Russians that its president, Kremlin, and Russian media have lied to them.
The group also guides recipients in installing tor, accessing “real media” and getting around Russian Supervision. The Onion Router or tor browser is free, open-source software that allows anonymous communication.
The Anonymous representative who goes by the Twitter handle @DepaixPorteur told IBT. “We hacked printers all across Russia and printed this PDF explaining that Putin/Kremlin/Russian media is lying and then we instructed how to install tor and get around their censorship to access real media,”
Those Behind The Anonymous Hack
The group revealed some of the actors behind the hack that make the Russian printer hack a success. Which are Anonymous Strategic Support(A.S.S) and #OpRedScare.
Anonymous Message to the Russians
The English version of the PDF in the printer hack urges “Citizens of Russia, act now to stop terrorist[s]. Putin killing over thousands in Ukraine.” and “the people of Russia should find horror in Putin’s actions.”
Moreover, IBT added that the statement also underlined that it was Putin who started the war over “borders and fear of the West,” and not over Ukraine. The last paragraph remarked, “a wad of paper and ink is a cheap price for the blood of the innocent.” It also urges Russians to fight for their “heritage and honor, overthrow Putin’s corrupt system that steals from your picket.”
While the anonymous had earlier told IBT that it is working on a data dump that “will blow Russia away.”