Anonymous hacks Russian state television and central bank

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According to the securityaffairs.co platform, the Anonymous group is said to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and the Russian state television and radio company VGTRK. In both cases you want to have GBytes of data extracted. Some of these will be published soon.

According to securityaffairs.co, Anonymous has hacked into the state television and radio company (VGTRK). The extracted data will soon be available on the platform DDoS secrets to be published. What exactly should be in the data is currently not yet clear. The Anonymous subsidiary Black Rabbit World is said to have extracted 28 GB of data from the Russian central bank.

28 GB of the Russian Central Bank captured

This data is already on the leak page DDoSsecreats.com to download ready. The site encourages researchers and journalists to evaluate the data and share information about it as well. The group plans to distribute the stolen documents to various places on the internet to prevent them from being censored.

Twitter plays a crucial role in the group's communication with each other and with other groups affiliated with the collective. Anonymous claims that the @OpsAn0n account was suspended from Twitter, likely to prevent the dissemination of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia or information related to other attacks by the collective. Twitter's TCO recently noted that it will not allow posts that violate the platform's terms of service.

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