On Tuesday, the broadcast of President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address was abruptly interrupted due to a possible major hack, multiple sources report.
As Vladimir Putin addressed lawmakers in the Russian parliament, a massive cyberattack hit all of the primary state channels of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company [VGTRK]. Their web links were targeted.
Instead of Putin's speech, a notification flashed on the screen that read "Error 500," informing viewers of technical errors that were being fixed.
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There was no immediate official confirmation of the hack, but it appeared that a major problem had affected the state broadcaster in all 11 time zones across Russia.
According to RIA Novosti, a state-run news agency, the outage was caused by a DDoS.
Alexei Navalny's team said President Putin said the websites of Russian television channels were subjected to a DDoS attack during his speech to the Federal Assembly.
Radio Mayak is no exception to the cyberattack, claiming that its online channels were infiltrated by malicious hackers.
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During his broadcast, Putin declared that the West started a war in Ukraine with the aim of escalating it into a global conflict against Russia for its own pursuit of “unlimited power.”
Source of information: dailymail.co.uk
