The website of Russia's state-owned news agency appears to have been hacked on Monday, with an anti-war message taking over the homepage.
The Moscow Times, an English-language outlet based in the Russian capital, took over the website's homepage on Monday afternoon, with the outlet reporting it at .
The logo for the international hacker collective, "Anonymous", ends the message, but the identity of those responsible for the hack has not been revealed.
The message can be seen on the cached version of the TASS website.
Dear citizens. We urge you to stop this madness, do not send your sons and husbands to certain death. Putin makes us lie and puts us in danger. We were isolated from the whole world, they stopped buying oil and gas. In a few years we will live like in North Korea. What is it for us? To put Putin in the textbooks? This is not our war, let's stop it!This message will be deleted, and some of us will be fired or even jailed. But we can't take it anymore.
Indifferent journalists of Russia.
A screenshot of a cached version of the TASS homepage taken Monday, with the Russian translated to English via Google. Credit: Screenshot: Mashable
According to the Moscow Times and confirmed by the EU disinformation taskforce, other media platforms are also at risk.
The online news platform Fontanka.ru reported that it had been attacked by a distributed denial of service.
Izvestia, a site owned by the Kremlin, has also been hacked, according to Novaya Gazeta.
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Znak.com's official statement reads "Our service was subjected to a cyberattack and was hacked." The site confirmed that there was an unauthorized statement on the site. We declared that our team has nothing to do with this.
Maria Demina, product manager of the City Portals Network, confirmed the hack and said that the script had been removed.
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