“Soon you will feel the wrath of the world’s hackers,” Anonymous declared in a video on Twitter in late February.

The group has made good on its promise. They have hacked a Russian State TV channel and interrupted programming to show the bombing of Ukraine.

The Russian government has very tight control over its media. President Putin signed a law that criminalizes reporting against the official government statement on the war in Ukraine.

Western sanctions are working to cut-off Russia from international trade and the international banking system. Among the steps they took is Russia being removed from the SWIFT systems that allow international transfers.

Anonymous’s main advantage is its digital capability. Although unconventional, they have means that could change the tide. Among their targets are international companies that have not yet left Russia. They tweeted “Your time is running out. We do not forgive. We do not forget.” Also, earlier this month, members of the group offered $52,000 worth of Bitcoin to Russian soldiers to abandon their tanks.

There are also a number of hackers from Poland who have built a group named Squad 303. The name comes from a World War II Polish fighter squadron. They have built a website that allows people to send messages to random Russian numbers to inform them about the war. So far about 20 million tests have already been sent.

In the digital age, cyber talents are vital because they provide support and protection in places that no armies could go.

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According to US President Joe Biden, Russia has massed an estimated 150,000 troops along Ukraine’s border. US authorities have warned that a new Russian invasion may happen at any time. Russia has rejected any intention of invading Ukraine.

The incident was characterized by SSSCIP as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. It involves flooding a website with bogus traffic in order to prevent access to it. DDoS assaults are inexpensive and simple to carry out. They can be disruptive, but they don’t always have to be sophisticated.

Access to the banks’ websites — PrivatBank and Oschadbank — had been restored by 7:30 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. ET), according to Ukrainian officials. Tuesday night there were troubles accessing military agency websites.

According to Zhora, Ukrainian government authorities are “continuing to monitor and shut off” the IP addresses from which the hackers are flooding Ukrainian websites with traffic.

DDoS assaults are tough to track down because hackers can fake their geolocation to appear to be in a place they aren’t.

The DDoS assault looks to be “part of a wider campaign of harassment and demoralization against the public promoted by the Russian government,” according to Matt Tait, a cybersecurity expert and former information security specialist with the UK government’s signals intelligence agency.

Russia consistently denies carrying out cyberattacks.

Last month, a separate hack targeted Ukrainian government websites. Officials in Ukraine have indicated Russian and Belarusian participation, although the hack has yet to be officially pinned on those nations.

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