Russia faces 'unprecedented' cyber attacks with Aeroflot and Sberbank hacked, Kremlin admits

Russia faces 'unprecedented' cyber attacks with Aeroflot and Sberbank hacked, Kremlin admits

Russia is facing 'unprecedented' cyber attacks with Aeroflot and major bank among websites hacked, Kremlin admits

  • Russian government websites have been hacked as huge cyber attacks continue
  • Crashes are said to be 'two to three times' more severe than previous outages
  • Affected sites include big lender Sberbank and state-owned firms like Aeroflot
  • Moscow is now rushing through legislation to protect its flailing IT sector
  • Russian government websites including the Kremlin's own have been hit by unprecedented cyber attacks, with desperate efforts made to filter foreign web traffic.

    State entities and Kremlin-owned companies have been targeted since the start of the war in Ukraine, the TASS news agency reported via the digital ministry on Thursday.  

    Flagship carrier Aeroflot and major lender Sberbank are among those which have seen outages or temporary access issues in recent weeks. 

    Russia's reign of terror in key strategic cities Kharkiv and Mariupol has continued, but Ukrainian Territorial Defense soldiers (pictured) have stayed strong amid the onslaught

    Desperate refugees sheltering in the Mariupol Drama Theatre (centre) were targeted by air strikes despite writing 'children' in Russian on the pavement outside the building

    It follows vicious air strikes on Ukrainian cities including Mariupol, where refugees were tar ..

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