Hackers successfully targeted Russia's state security agency last week through a major contractor, stealing and publishing details of secret internet projects including social media scraping and Tor de-anonymization.
Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia's Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest of the world. The data was passed to mainstream media outlets for publishing.
0v1ru$ left a smiling Yoba Face on SyTech's homepage alongside pictures purporting to showcase the breach. 0v1ru$ then passed the data itself to the larger hacking group Digital Revolution, which shared the files with various media outlets and the headlines with Twitter—taunting FSB that the agency should maybe rename one of its breached activities"Project Collander."Digital Revolution has targeted FSB before. It is unknown how tightly the two hacking groups are linked.
The preparatory activities for splitting off a"Russian internet," follow Russian President Vladimir Putin signing into
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