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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge.

CNN has requested comment from JSC Kaluzhskoe, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) and the individual website administrators that the hackers claim to have outsmarted.

On February 19, the day after the hackers defaced the website and replaced it with Navalny’s photo, JSC Kaluzhskoe posted on Russian social media platform VK that it had experienced a “technical failure” that led to the “prices for food and basic necessities” being “reflected incorrectly.”

Navalny, a charismatic political leader who railed against Russian government corruption, died in mysterious circumstances on February 16 at a prison in Yamalo-Nenets region, 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow.

Pro-Ukraine hackers of various stripes have joined the fray, claiming responsibility for attacks on a Russian internet provider, for example, and websites that were broadcasting a high-profile Putin speech last year.

“Hacktivism has emerged as a powerful tool for diverse groups to express their perspectives, rally behind their nations, target perceived adversaries, and attempt to influence the trajectory of the war.”


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