Alerts | Hacking/DDoS attack

Radio Halychyna cyber-attacked following appeal by Russian hacker group

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On 2 March 2023, Halychyna FM, a highly popular radio station broadcasting in Western Ukraine, was targeted in a cyber attack likely initiated by Russian hackers. On its Facebook page, Halychyna FM posted screenshots from a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel known as The People’s Cyber Army (‘Narodnaya Cyber-Armiya’, in Russian), which on 1 March asked its over 6000 followers to attack the Ukrainian radio station. As a result, the radio’s website was unaccessible for an unspecified amount of time, with access fully restored by 2 March. Halychyna FM claimed that hackers could have also attempted to gain access to the radio’s airwaves, but were unsuccessful. The radio’s program director Yula Byelska linked the attack to the radio’s pro-Ukrainian position in the ongoing war with Russia, adding that similar attacks would likely occur in the future.

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