Anon and RU Culture

The international Anonymous hacktivists group has targeted the Russian Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB worth of data online. The cyberattack was carried out as part of their collective’s ongoing operation OpRussia against the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Anonymous is a group of hacktivists that publicly announced a cyberwar against Russia after the country invaded Ukraine in late February 2022. The latest to suffer a data leak is Russia’s Ministry of Culture. As seen by Hackread.com, the group has leaked 446 GB of data stolen from the ministry. One of the Anonymous representatives on Twitter (@YourAnonTV) also confirmed the attack in their tweet.

Anon also analyzed the data revealing that among other information it also includes 30,000 emails from the Russian Culture Ministry (Министерство культуры Российской Федерации). The ministry manages state policy about cinematography, art, copyright, archives, censorship, and cultural heritage.[1]

700 GB of Data, 500,000 Emails Leaked So Far. Since the beginning of the Ukraine and Russia conflict, Anon and its affiliates have published more than 700 GB of data claimed to be stolen from the Russian government entities. Below is a current list of the entities targeted under Anonymous-backed #OpRussia.

Forest
Aerogas
VGTRK
Petrofort
Mosekspertiza
Marathon Group
Capital Legal Services
Tver Governor’s office
Blagoveshchensk City Administration
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
for Church Charity and Social Service of the Russian Orthodox Church

Around 150 GB of data was leaked after Blagoveshchensk hacking, and 116 GB of emails from the Tver region governor and administration have been leaked. Anon claims to have access to at least 600,000 emails from the 712GB of data from these entities. Since the beginning of the way, their has claimed to have posted over 2 million Russian emails online.

Anonymous Vows More Attacks on Russia - It is no secret that Anon is standing strong with Ukraine over the ongoing conflict between the two countries. The collectives have so far targeted both the government and the private sector to spread their message.

The list and timeline of some of the cyberattacks reported by Hackread.com on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine are as follow:

Feb 28th: Anonymous hacks EV charging station + TV channels
March 4th: Anonymous hacks Russian space research institute website
March 7th: Anonymous hacks Russian TV & streaming sites with war footage
March 10th: Anonymous hacks 90% of misconfigured Russian cloud databases
March 11th: Anonymous Hacks Russian Media Censoring Agency Roskomnadzor
Match 12th: Anonymous hacks Russian security cameras, sends 7 million texts
March 15th: Anonymous DDoSd Russian Fed Security Service and other websites
March 19th: Anonymous hacked and leaked 79 GB of Russian pipeline giant data
March 23rd: Anonymous hacks printers in Russia to send anti-war messages
March 29th: Anonymous Hacks 2 Russian Industrial Firms, Leaks 112GB of Data
April 6th: Anonymous Breach State-Run Russian Broadcaster; Leak GBs of data
April 12th: Anonymous Hits 3 Russian Entities, Leaks 400 GB Worth of Emails

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