Russian media has blamed hackers after industrial radio stations within the nation broadcast bogus warnings about air raids and missile strikes.
The Ministry of Emergency Conditions, a Russian authorities company, reportedly warned that false details about assaults had been broadcast on stations together with Gazprom Media stations Loosen up FM, Comedy Radio, and Humor FM.
The bogus broadcast warnings, which had been accompanied by loud siren noises, suggested civillians to go to air raid shelters.
Signal as much as our e-newsletterAs The Document experiences, some folks managed to document immediately’s faux air raid warnings on digital camera.
Right now, radio stations throughout Russia together with in Volgograd, Stavropol, Moscow area broadcasted air raid warnings (the video is reportedly from Belgorod)
Acc to the Ministry of Emergency Conditions this messages is faux and was brought on by a hacker assault https://t.co/Cd7bGeVVAx pic.twitter.com/wfuIjGQkyZ
— Oleg Shakirov (@shakirov2036) February 22, 2023
Yesterday, state media web sites broadcasting a state of the nation speech by Russian president Vladimir Putin had been disrupted by an obvious denial-of-service assault for which Ukrainian hackers later claimed accountability.
That assault will need to have been notably galling, as – earlier than the speech started – TV channels had described the technical preparations that had been made to make sure that the reside stream could be carried throughout all of Russian’s main TV channels.
I don’t assume anybody could be stunned if these newest bogus air raid warnings broadcast over the radio was additionally the work of Ukrainian hackers, or not less than those that are sympathetic with the nation’s plight.
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