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A cyber-attack on Yandex—Moscow's biggest taxi company—caused traffic chaos; the Anonymous Collective has claimed responsibility as part of its 'OpRussia' campaign supporting Ukraine.Summary
Loukia Papadopoulos writing in Interesting Engineering, makes the following points:
- The cyberattack caused a three-hour traffic jam sending taxis toward Moscow's Hotel Ukraine.
- The attackers probably bypassed Yandex's security and generated fake pick-up requests.
- Russia-friendly hackers have previously launched cyber-attacks against Ukrainian government organisations.
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- SEP 2022 Hackers gridlock Moscow by sending group of taxis to same location in 'anti-Putin protest'-Mirror
- SEP 2022 Hackers created an enormous traffic jam in Moscow-Cyber news
