E1.Ru - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: E1.Ru, News website

Incident date: February 28, 2022

Attack type:

Cyber-, DDoS, and hacker attack on a media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

Hackers hacked the websites of the Russian media outlets TASS, RBC, Forbes, Kommersant, Takie Dela, Fontanka, Izvestia, the education media Mel, as well as the Urals-based media outlets Znak.com, E1.Ru and the Belarusian media outlets Onliner and dev.by. A report on the events in Ukraine appeared on their main pages. Underneath the message was the logo of the hacker group Anonymous.

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