{"id":435396,"date":"2022-02-28T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=435396"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T08:01:16","slug":"cyberattack-brings-kremlin-website-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/435396-cyberattack-brings-kremlin-website-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack brings Kremlin website down"},"content":{"rendered":"

The office of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s website<\/a><\/strong> went down on Saturday amidst reports of denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a range of other Russian government and media websites.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin’s website was still offline on Monday, 28 February 2022.<\/p>\n

According to a Reuters report<\/a><\/strong>, these outages follow the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister’s announcement that the country had launched a force to combat Russia in cyberspace.<\/p>\n

Social media accounts associated with the online activist hacker community Anonymous have announced intentions to attack Russia through similar means.<\/p>\n

Reuters also reported<\/a><\/strong> that Ukraine had reached out to the “hacker underground” to help in its efforts against Russia.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, 27 February 2022, several websites associated with Belarus’ train network went offline due to an attack from a hacker group called The Cyber Partisans.<\/p>\n

The Belarusian hacker group also managed to bring some of the country’s trains to a halt<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine also suffered cyberattacks where destructive software was found to be circulating in the country.<\/p>\n

Among the victims were Ukrainian government facilities and one financial institution.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Facebook shuts down pro-Russia propaganda network<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kremlin’s website went offline after the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister announced intentions to combat Russia in cyberspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":427234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[189,19562,41982,76848],"class_list":["post-435396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-anonymous","tag-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos","tag-kremlin","tag-russia-ukraine-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435398,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435396\/revisions\/435398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}