Documents released by Anonymous show that Russia is heavily censoring the narrative regarding its role in its war with Ukraine.

The Anonymous hacker collective has hacked into Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal agency responsible for monitoring and censoring media, and released 360,000 files, the group announced on Twitter.

JUST IN: #Anonymous has successfully breached & leaked the database of Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal executive agency responsible for monitoring, controlling & censoring #Russian mass media, releasing to the public over 360K files. #russia #Ukrainehttps://t.co/yCiybbEQXu

— Anonymous (@AnonymousNewsHQ) March 11, 2022

Anonymous’ official statement regarding the legendary hack:

In the Cyberwar category, we are listing 340,000 files from the Роскомнадзор or Roskomnadzor of the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan. By population, Bashkortostan is one of the larger republics of the Russian federation, and Roskomnadzor is the Russian federal agency responsible for the monitoring and censorship of Russian media.

Roskomnadzor’s activities are always a matter of public interest to the people of Russia and to the world. Their recent actions have only emphasized this:

Roskomnadzor has given instructions about what can be said and ordered media outlets to delete stories that call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine an Invasion. In response to Facebook’s fact-checking Russia’s statements about the war, Roskomnadzor began restricting access to Facebook before later blocking it. Roskomnadzor also threatened to block access to Russian Wikipedia over their article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows an established history of similar actions in the past.

The source, a part of Anonymous, urgently felt the Russian people should have access to information about their government. They also expressed their opposition to the Russian people being cut off from independent media and the outside world. We are publishing this release in anticipation of Russia potentially being cut off from the global internet on March 11, and hope Russians will have time to download this data, before then.

The 363,994 files in this release are in 43,593 directories. The release is split in two parts.

Files

Over 360,000 files from the Roskomnadzor network, totaling 526.9 GB. According to the timestamps, some of the files are as recent as March 5, 2022.

Users are advised to be extra careful as some directories, like ПОЧТА Приемная, appear to contain large numbers of email attachments. Email attachments are often a vector of malware and phishing attempts, so use caution and tools like Dangerzone and others.

Databases

There are two directories that we identified as containing the raw data files in proprietary formats for a pair of databases. Together, they total 290.6 GB. We will soon be releasing the raw data while we look for solutions to extracting the data. One appears to be a legal research database that, according to the file timestamp, was last modified in 2020. The other appears to be a database for HR procedures.

The data can be downloaded in full from our site, split into two torrents for easier handling.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion.

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Anonymous Message To Russian Citizens

Greetings citizens of #Russia. This is a message from #Anonymous.

You are being trapped behind an iron curtain of propaganda, with your government attempting to keep you from being a part of the international conversation, out of fear for what you might find out. Many of you may not even know the true reason behind the recent bank runs and economic problems being faced in your country. We have received reports that global events have been getting very little airtime on Russian media, despite the fact that Russia is at the center of a global crisis.

The regime of Vladaimir Putin has been carrying out war crimes with his recent invasion of Ukraine, which has caused a massive refugee crisis and countless deaths. If you know about the war by now you may have been told that NATO was to blame for this dispute. It may be true that NATO is to blame for most of the military violence that takes place across the planet, but this is one of the rare cases where they are actually in a defensive posture. NATO’s history and positioning in Europe does not justify Putin’s full scale bombing and invasion of a neighboring soveirgn nation.

Putin’s aggressive actions in #Ukraine have sparked outrage around the world, which is why the sanctions on the country have been tightened. Sadly, this is a terrible strategy that the governments of the world have taken, because sanctions do not hurt Putin, they will only hurt the average people like you, who are not responsible for this war. Most rational people around the world understand that you are not to blame for the actions of your leader. In fact, we see that many of you have protested against the war and resisted in various other ways, risking over a decade in prison, or worse, if you are caught.

Most people in the world want peace. The only people who want war are those with power who are able to benefit from it. Other countries around the world are waging economic warfare on Russia to prevent Putin’s regime from succeeding in Ukraine, and it is only going to get worse from here. It is a terrible situation that you have been put in, but your only option to prevent the impending economic collapse and potential world war is to take actions to resist the war and the regime and Vladamir Putin.

The world does not want you to suffer, but sadly our governments are treating us all like pawns in their grand game of chess, and Putin has put the Russian population up as a sacrifice. At this point, the most peaceful way that this conflict could end, would be for the people of Russia to rise up against Putin and remove him from power. We have your back, and we will be providing cyber assistance throughout the struggle.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion.

Expect Us!

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• Anonymous is showing a live feed from about 400 hacked public cameras in Russia.
• The hacked camera feeds are meant to counter Russia’s propaganda and help with recon, as per Anonymous.
• The group hacked into Russian TV channels and streaming services for a similar purpose earlier this week.

In its latest attacks, the group has hacked into more than 400 Russian cameras and overlaid text on them depicting the situation in the war-hit Ukraine. The hacks come just a day after Anonymous hacked streaming services and live TV channels in Russia to broadcast footage straight from Ukraine.

We at #Anonymous currently have over 400 Russian cameras under control. They are spreading our message. #ukraine #OpRussia #russia #putin #kremlin #moscow #UkraineRussiaCrisis #UkraineRussianWar #Ukrainians #UkraineWar #UkraineUnderAttaсk #UkraineInvasion #russianinvasion pic.twitter.com/ILvDgQBVPg

— Anonymous (@AnonymousNewsHQ) March 9, 2022

The hacker group confirmed the attack on Russian camera feeds in a new tweet on Tuesday. In the tweet, it mentioned that it has “taken control of” 400 plus Russian cameras in the attack in support of Ukraine. The group has even compiled about 100 of these camera feeds on a website behindenemylines.live as “Russian camera dump.”

The camera feeds can be seen listed under various categories on the website, based on the location of the cameras. The categories include Businesses, Outside, Inside, Houses, Restaurants, Offices, Schools, and Security Offices. The group, however, took down the House cameras out of respect for the privacy of the Russian citizens.

We checked the camera feeds and they seem to be live-streaming footage from the various locations in Russia at the time of writing.

The camera feeds also have an overlaid text on them, which, as per Anonymous, is meant to act as an “anti-propaganda to open the eyes of Russian civilians.” Various lines of text, like “Putin is killing children,” “352 Ukraine civillians dead,” and “Russians lied to 200RF.com,” a website that contains photos and videos, some graphic, of alleged Russian soldiers captured by its Ukraine.

The attacks by Anonymous is the latest one meant to target Russia’s alleged propaganda. On Monday morning, the hacker group took control of live TV channels in Russia, including Russia 24, Channel One, and Moscow 24 to broadcast footage from the war-hit locations in Ukraine. Russian streaming services like Wink and Ivi, which act like Netflix in the country, were also taken over in the hack.

In its acceptance of the attacks, Anonymous maintains that “ordinary Russians are against the war,” and that it does not wish to harm the citizens of the country in any way. It reiterates that its attacks are directed on the Kremlin’s “propaganda” spread to justify its invasion of Ukraine.

It remains to be seen how Anonymous’ actions will be perceived by the governments in the modern era of cyberwar. Though it seems to be unified against Russia, the collective has had an informal identity till now, with its members seemingly spread out across the world. Though it claims to be acting on humanitarian grounds in this case, an act of cyber warfare against a nation may not be taken lightly by global authorities.

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