Russia has garnered one of its biggest enemies yet in its current invasion of Ukraine – Anonymous, which is claiming that it hijacked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regularly scheduled television propaganda programming. The notorious international activist-hacking group is taking responsibility for the mass disruption of multiple Russian television broadcasts on a couple of popular streaming services and state media channels this past weekend.
Anonymous, which has been involved in high-profile leaks throughout its nearly 20-year history, aired real war footage from Ukraine on the Russian streaming services and state media channels, instead of the news programs that were scheduled to be playing. The reports and videos that were shown on the networks that were hacked appear to show Anonymous. As a result, Russian citizens were able to see real footage of Ukrainian civilians being bombed and forced to flee their homes.
Anonymous reported about its alleged hacking of the Russian networks on Twitter on Sunday:
Reportedly, 70 percent of Russians support the invasion of Ukraine. That opinion has created in part because the country’s television networks have been spinning the narrative of the invasion to say that their country is fighting Nazism and saving Ukraine.
