After launching a cyberwar on Russia, members of the hacking group Anonymous targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin. An offshoot of the Hacker Anonymous group has hacked into Putin’s yacht network from Graceful to “FCKPTN”. According to cybersecurity experts, Hackers “have found a way to mess up maritime traffic data. and make it look like the yacht crashed into Ukraine’s Snake Island.” The hacker even changed the destination of the $97 million yacht to “hell”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s yacht was renamed FCKPTN by Anonymous
According to information, Puttin currently owns a luxury yacht worth $97 million called “Graceful”.
Putin reports has a $97 million luxury yacht called “Graceful”. A group of Anonymous hackers on Saturday figured out a way to mess with maritime traffic data & made it look like the yacht had crashed into Ukraine’s Snake Island, then changed its destination to “hell”: pic.twitter.com/Ch53lcG7D6
— Ryan Gallagher (@rj_gallagher) February 27, 2022
In another tweet, it is possible that the group’s implementation of this daring hack is linked to an Anonymous fork called ‘The Anon Leaks‘. This group of hackers shared how they changed the details of a yacht by hacking into the “Marine Automatic Identification System, which is used to track ships.
The group’s twitter said it would aim to bring the yacht into “the scope of sanctions packages” and to lighten the mood during these dark times.
As reported by The Independent, the hacker group recently made a blog post in Germany. In the post, they say that Russian banks and services have also been hacked. However, they assert that these attacks alone “will not bring down the regime.” The hackers also emphasized that the attacks were not aimed at the Russian people or military, but only against the president and state-controlled agencies and companies, including the media.
‘Anonymous’, the hacker group that declared cyber war against Russia in favor of Ukraine on February 25. As reported by Business Inside, these Hackers have taken down or slowed down Russian government websites, including including the Kremlin, the Duma and the Ministry of Defense. , as well as RT.com, the site of a state-run television network. Currently many Twitter users support the Anonymous movement.
Russian electric car charger hacked, the words ‘PUTIN IS DICKHEAD’ appeared
An electric vehicle charger on a Russian street stopped working and the words PUTIN IS DICKHEAD appeared.
Electric vehicle charging stations along Russia’s M11 highway, which stretches from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, are not working because a Ukrainian company supplying parts for chargers hacked using a backdoor in the charger’s control system. .
The chargers were purchased through a Russian company that outsourced production to a Ukrainian parts supplier called AutoEnterprise, an EV charging company based in Kharkiv. This morning, posts started appearing on social media showing that the charger was disabled and programmed to display pro-Ukrainian messages.
The charger shows an error message reading in English “CALL SERVICE NO PLUGS AVAILABLE” before the new display shows an additional message in Russian: “GLORY TO UKRAINE/GLORY TO THE HEROES/PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD/DEATH TO THE ENEMY.” The phrase, which translates as “Putin is an asshole” became a popular slogan in post-war Ukraine of Russia 2014, especially among football fans in Kharkiv.
It is not clear how many chargers have stopped working, how long they will display anti-Putin messages, or how long the chargers will stop working. In its statement, Rosseti said the chargers are being removed from the charging network and will be back up and running soon.
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