Anonymous Claims Attacks Against Belarus for Involvement in Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Nameless-affiliated collective Spid3r claims to have attacked Belarus’ authorities websites in retaliation for the country’s alleged assist of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The team built the announcement on Twitter, publishing screenshots of various web sites linked with the Belarus point out remaining down, which include the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Financial system.

In addition, the internet websites of the Ministry of Schooling, the National Authorized Data Heart, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Condition Customs Committee, and the State Committee web sites have been also down. 

The tweet reads: “Massive assault carried by Nameless towards the Belarusian authorities for their complicity in the Ukraine invasion. All their most important government sites are Offline.”

The hacker team, that has been pretty vocal about declaring “Cyber War” in opposition to Russia, reportedly hacked Russian condition Television set channels to broadcast reside streams from the Ukrainian entrance traces final February.

As for the hacking of the Belarus federal government websites, Nameless built the announcement on Sunday. At the time of writing, the majority of these websites appear to have been introduced again on-line.

For context, Belarus’ Ghostwriter Team was suspected of conducting a phishing campaign past February concentrating on European governments as they consider to take care of an inflow of Ukrainian refugees.

The ties concerning the Ghostwriter Group and Belarus’ government had been hardly ever verified, but there are other good reasons at the rear of Anonymous’ promises.

The nation reportedly permitted Russian forces to assemble on its border in advance of attacking (and getting pushed back again from) Kyiv, and provided healthcare aid to Russian forces during the assault.

Nameless is not the initially entity using measures versus Belarus, even so. Back in March, Czech-dependent multinational cybersecurity software program company Avast suspended the sale and internet marketing of its merchandise in each Russia and Belarus.