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00:00Hi, I'm AI Joe, the first artificially generated news presenter from CyberNews.com,

00:06a reliable source for regular cybersecurity advice, news, and opinion.

00:14Greetings citizens of the world. This is a message to Vladimir Putin from Anonymous.

00:20Mr. Putin, the ongoing invasion of Ukraine has shown that your regime has no respect for human

00:25rights or the self-determination of your neighbors. Members of Anonymous have declared cyber war

00:30against your aggressive regime, with numerous government websites being taken offline in the

00:34past several days. Thursday evening, the Anonymous collective declared a cyber war against Russia

00:41as Putin's forces closed in on the Ukrainian capital. And it looks like they were serious.

00:46On Friday evening, Anonymous claimed they managed to breach the database belonging to the Russian

00:52Ministry of Defense. The group's actions appear to be part of a growing trend that is seeing a

00:57growing number of cyber soldiers take to the newest front in the war against Russia.

01:02Anonymous posted the database online and made it accessible to anyone. The group tweeted,

01:08Hackers all around the world. Target Russia in the name of hash Anonymous,

01:13let them know we do not forgive, we do not forget.

01:17It seems that the database contains officials' phone numbers, emails, and passwords.

01:22Twitter users seem excited about the news and continue discussing how they could use

01:26them to harm Putin's regime. One user suggested, sign them up for GOP and Trump fundraising emails.

01:34That will be enough to drive them all crazy. Many encouraged each other to send spam and malware

01:40to Russians. The original tweet announcing the leak and containing the link to the database was taken

01:45down because it violated the Twitter rules. Anonymous updated their tweet by removing the link.

01:52Many activists took Ukraine's calls on the hacker underground to defend against Russia to heart.

01:58Earlier today, Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down Russia's most prominent websites

02:03used to spread Kremlin propaganda. Even Pornhub had its say by blocking Russian users and greeting them

02:09with the Ukrainian flag and a message of support. Such actions represent an escalation in cyber warfare,

02:16prompted by Vladimir Putin's shocking decision to launch a full-scale attack on Ukraine this week.

02:22Cybersecurity analysts are predicting an upsurge in defense spending across Europe for both digital

02:28and conventional warfare, while patriotic or idealistic hackers sympathetic to either side are also

02:34mobilizing. Cybersecurity firms such as Disbalancer and Hacken have set up an app that can be easily

02:40downloaded, which they say allows people to conduct cyber attacks against Russian sites, while another

02:46anonymous group has developed a website tool that allows anyone with an internet connection to

02:51participate in distributed denial of service attacks against Putin's regime. Given NATO's apparent

02:58reluctance to get involved directly in the fighting in Ukraine for fear of escalating to total, and possibly

03:05nuclear, war, it is perhaps unsurprising that the wider European conflict is being more aggressively

03:11prosecuted by digital means. To that end, Russia has also opened a cyber front. Ukraine's Computer

03:19Emergency Response Team, CERT, said the hackers were using password-stealing emails to break into Ukrainian

03:26soldiers' email accounts and using the compromised address books to send further malicious messages.

03:32According to Reuters, a Russia-based cybercrime group Kanti, known for using ransomware to extort

03:38millions of dollars from US and European companies, vowed on Friday to attack enemies of the Kremlin if they

03:44respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And recently, the BBC reported that reputable

03:51cybersecurity analysts in Russia are turning rogue by night, assembling their teams to conduct patriotic

03:57hacking attacks against enemies of the Kremlin. I want to help beat Ukraine from my computer,

04:03one such actor told the BBC recently, after he and his team conducted DDoS attacks on Ukrainian government

04:09websites. In a blog post, the Kanti Group said it was announcing its full support for the government

04:15of President Vladimir Putin. If anybody will decide to organize a cyberattack or any war activities

04:22against Russia, we are going to use our all-possible resources to strike back at the critical infrastructures

04:28of the victims of an enemy.

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