Thomson Reuters reports:
Russian state media company VGTRK has been targeted in an unprecedented cyberattack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, saying that specialists were working hard to determine who was responsible.
VGTRK, which owns and operates Russia’s main national TV channels and a slew of regional channels and radio stations, said earlier on Monday in a statement that its online service had come under cyberattack overnight, but that radio and TV broadcasting were working as normal despite the attack.
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In related coverage, Politico reports that state-owned news outlet Gazeta.ru has reported that the Ukrainian-linked hacker group “sudo rm -RF” was behind the attack. Interfax-Ukraine reports that the hackers timed the attack to coincide with Putin’s birthday.