Cyber specialists of the Main Directorate of Intelligence launched an attack on the servers of Russian TV channels, as a result of which objective videos about the war against Ukraine were shown on the air of a number of TV companies.
Points of attention
- Cyber specialists of the State Security Service attacked the servers of Russian TV channels, showing objective videos about the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
- Russian specialists tried to correct the situation, but nine TV channels were forced to stop broadcasting for a long time.
- GUR received a large array of classified information during a cyberattack on a Russian enterprise developing nuclear munitions.
- Failures in the operation of the nuclear enterprise are a serious blow to the image of the Russian Federation as an aggressor country.
- The information obtained during the cyber attack will be used in the interests of Ukraine to achieve victory.
What is known about the GUR cyber attack on Russian television
According to Online.UA sources in the Ukrainian intelligence, the video from the GUR was shown three times in the prime time of the TV channels "Pervouralsk TV", "Eurasia 360", "Eurasia. The first channel" and others.
As noted, some of the attacked channels belong to the media holding of local oligarch Andriy Komarov.
Russian cyber security experts tried to correct the situation, but as a result of their actions, the broadcast of nine Russian TV channels was stopped at once: Eurasia 360, Eurasia First Channel, Pervouralsk TV, Luhansk 24, First Republican, SpB, " Oplot", TV-3 and "First Russian".
At the same time, these countermeasures could not prevent the cyber specialists of GUR MOU from maintaining access to the servers of television companies.
Therefore, a number of TV channels were forced to stop their own broadcasting for a long time after the attack, as evidenced by public appeals to TV viewers.
As of the morning of August 22, only Eurasia 360 and TV-3 have partially resumed their work, while the broadcasts of others remain blocked.
GUR received a lot of secret information as a result of a cyber attack on a defense enterprise of the Russian Federation
As a result of the August 17 cyber attack on a Russian enterprise that develops nuclear munitions, GUR received a large amount of information and caused disruptions in the work of this institution.
Yevhen Yerin, representative of the Ukrainian SSR, told about this on the air of the national telethon "Edyny Novyny".
This is one of the powerful enterprises that developed nuclear munitions. Disruptions in the work of such an enterprise are a blow both to the structure itself and to the image of the aggressor country.
According to him, as a result of the cyber attack, the GUR received a lot of information.
There is a lot of information, it is diverse: it includes personal databases of employees, official information, information that can shed some light on ways to circumvent sanctions. It is studied and analyzed and will be used one hundred percent in the interests of our victory.
