The Russian hacker group Killnet said that they took down the Anonymous website "anonymoushackers[.]net" and called on Russians not to believe the Internet fakes and to stay calm. Killnet's appeal was published on one of its Telegram channels on Tuesday, March 1.
According to the hacker group, "the Internet is full of fake information about hacking Russian banks, attacks on the servers of Russian media and much more. All this has no danger to people. This "information bomb" carries only text. And no more harm. Don't give in to fake information on the Internet. Do not doubt your country".
Hackers blamed the events in Ukraine on the country's President, Vladimir Zelensky, as well as American leader Joe Biden. The leaders of the EU countries, as they say in the appeal, are following the lead of the United States.
According to independent verification done by CySecurity News, there is no official website for Anonymous Group.
Russian hackers said that they had already disabled the website of the Anonymous group, along with the website of the Right Sector banned in the Russian Federation.
The Anonymous hacker group declared a cyberwar on Russia and claimed responsibility for a hacker attack, for example, on the RT website.
On February 28, the websites of Izvestia, TASS, Kommersant, Forbes, Fontanka, Mela, E1, Buro 24/7, RBC, Znak.Com and other Russian media were hacked.
On the same day, massive DDoS attacks were launched against websites of the Crimean government and authorities. Hackers used a botnet with IP addresses mostly located in North and South America, Taiwan, and a number of other countries.
On February 26, the Ministry of Information reported that users of the public services portal may face difficulties when working with the services of the site due to cyberattacks. At the same time, the department clarified that the personal data and information of citizens are reliably protected.
On the same day, the administration of the President of the Russian Federation reported regular cyberattacks on the Kremlin's website. Moreover, Russian Railways reported that the company's website is subject to regular serious DDoS attacks.
Earlier, Information security expert Nenakhov told what danger Anonymous hackers pose to Russia. According to him, DDoS attacks are the easiest thing that can happen. Government websites, government online services such as Gosuslugi, email, social media accounts of politicians, websites, and the IT infrastructure of state banks and defense companies are relatively more vulnerable to attacks.