An informal army recruited by Kiev has assembled 300 hackers to take down Russian websites.
The initiative was organized by Mykhailo Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation.
247 - The London-based newspaper The Guardian reports that an informal IT army of around 300 hackers has volunteered to help Ukraine in its cyberwar against Russia, aiming to take down websites associated with the Kremlin.
The group, recruited by the Ukrainian government, meets on Telegram, where they receive "missions" for cyberattacks.
The initiative was organized by Mykhailo Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation.
"We are creating an IT army. We need digital talent," Fedorov stated on Twitter at the start of the conflict, sharing the link to the Telegram group. "We continue to fight on the cyber front."
According to Alp Toker, director of NetBlocks, a company that monitors global internet connectivity, the official websites of the Kremlin, the official residence of the Russian presidency, and the Duma, one of the houses of the Russian Parliament, have shown "intermittent" connectivity since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine.
Websites belonging to state-owned companies, banks, and even Gazprom, the state-owned natural gas company, were also hit by the cyberattacks.
The most common attack strategy has been DDoS, which stands for "distributed denial of service," in which websites are overloaded with a large number of accesses, making them unstable.
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