The hack created a massive traffic jam in Moscow.
Drivers working for Yandex Taxi, the largest taxi service in Moscow, did not have a good day on Thursday as hackers messed with the company’s app and sent dozens of cars to the same location resulting in a traffic jam that lasted up to three hours,The vehicles were all sent to the Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major avenue in Moscow that is the location for the ‘Hotel Ukraina’ or Hotel Ukraine.
No one yet knows for sure who was behind the Yandex Taxi hack. However the Twitter page of Anonymous TV has taken responsibility claiming the Anonymous Collective was the initiator of the cyber attack. It further claimed the breach was part of a more extensive hacking campaign against Russia dubbed ‘OpRussia.’
So far the Russian military's warfare on Ukraine has included cyber attacks against Ukrainian government websites and affiliated organizations. These have been executed through various malware including but not limited to activating a data-wiping program dubbed HermeticWiper. attacks which temporarily forced government websites to go offline. DDoS attacks barrage websites with junk traffic so they become unreachable.
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