‘Anonymous’ Claims To Have Hacked Russian State TV And Broadcast Ukraine War Footage

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TV showing broadcast of the destruction in Ukraine with "Anonymous" tweet claiming to have hacked Russia state TV channels

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March 7, 2022, 12:39 pm

The hacking collective known as “Anonymous” claimed that their people were able to hack multiple Russian state-controlled news networks to broadcast footage of the attacks happening in Ukraine as Vladimir Putin’s invasion continues in order to counter misinformation in Russia. According to the report they posted, they hit channels like Russia 24, Channel One, and Moscow 24, and for a time those networks showed the results of Russian bombings in Ukrainian cities and “broadcast a call for Russians to oppose the genocide of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.”

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“The hacking collective #Anonymous hacked into the Russian streaming services Wink and Ivi (like Netflix) and live TV channels Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast war footage from Ukraine [today],” they wrote on their Twitter account.

The collective formally announced that they’re at war with Russia after recently speaking out against Putin’s invasion and allegedly taking down the recently shuttered state news outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) as well as the Kremlin’s official website in late February. In an even bigger claim, Anonymous said they also hacked the Russian space agency Roscosmos, with an offshoot group posting server information in a tweet and saying that Putin “no longer has control over spy satellites” and that they deleted files related to the agency’s satellite imaging and Vehicle Monitoring System.

Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin denied these claims, saying that all the agency’s operations are normal and calling the Anonymous hackers “scammers and petty swindlers.” He followed it up with an image of an odd-looking gentlemen on a farm with a striped shirt and fancy hat, labeling him a “Typical Ukrainian hacker.”

The move to broadcast invasion footage to the Russian people comes after widespread reports that Putin is working hard to repress actual information on what’s happening in Ukraine, instead threatening free media and claiming that the situation in Ukraine is a civil war against a Nazi threat. Though there are neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine including an infamous battalion that emerged during the mass protests of 2014, they’re just as much a problem in Russia and the line that Ukraine needs someone to come in for “denazification,” as Putin puts it, has been resoundingly rejected by the Ukrainian people.

Putin’s own soldiers appear to have been widely misled, with multiple captured or surrendered soldiers saying that they were either not told where they were going or why or that they were told they were going to liberate Ukraine from Nazis and that there would be little resistance. If true, this could help explain why Putin’s original timeline of taking Kyiv in three days was so resoundingly trounced and why Russian military convoys are running out of fuel, getting lost, and abandoning their tanks all over the country.

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Anonymous has remained a controversial group over the years, having in the past targeted the Islamic State, the Church of Scientology, and even the CIA, and their claims can be difficult to verify. However, with this latest move, the hacker collective will likely gain approval along with everyone else who is doing their part to say “screw you” to Putin in recent weeks.

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*First Published: March 7, 2022, 12:39 pm

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