By day, Ukrainian startup hackenclub performs audits of cryptocurrency protocols and exchanges. After-hours, the company is a collective of hacktivists ravaging the Russian Internet. The battlefield isn’t just on the ground—it’s in cyberspace.
‘Buy tickets ASAP’As the tensions around the Russian-Ukrainian border were mounting, with Russian troops gathering there, Budorin decided to relocate all 70 people working at Hacken to the West. Hacken’s headquarter is in Estonia, but most employees were located in Ukraine.“We told everyone: ‘Buy tickets ASAP, we need to leave, meet you in Barcelona.’ We realized that the risks were just too high and it’s time to make a decision, otherwise we would fail to protect our staff,” Budorin said.
Hacken is trying hard to relocate all of its staff to Western Ukraine, but some people are stuck in the cities engulfed by the war. “They don’t always have an internet connection. Sometimes, during a call, people say: ‘Sorry, we’re having an airstrike here, need to go downstairs to the basement, call you back in an hour,” Budorin said.
Over the early weeks of the war, multiple websites of government agencies, as well as government-funded and loyal media, suffered DDoS attacks, hacks and defacing. The attacks were carried out by a global community of hackers, from the Anonymous collective to single hacktivists striking Russian websites from their homes in Ukraine. It’s not clear which group was responsible for defacing the government websites on March 8.Mid-March, the Russian government acknowledged the scale of attacks.
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