Russian hackers attack Ukrainian media

This week, multiple Ukrainian media outlets were attacked by Russian hackers, publishing false information about the ongoing war between the two countries.

Ukrainska Pravada, one of Ukraine’s largest online newspapers, and business media site Liga.net have been hacked in recent days. Ukraine’s Cyber ​​Security Service (SSSCIP) confirmed via Telegram that the hack came from Russia.

“Russia continues its information warfare against our country. Today Russian hackers launched new attacks against a number of Ukrainian media outlets, posting false information on media resources,” SSSCIP posted.

The agency said representatives from each organization had contacted the Government Computer Emergency Response Team and experts were investigating the incident.

Ukraine’s Pravada account on Platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was hacked on Sunday. The organization’s editorial team “lost access to its UP account” and “fake information began appearing on its pages.”

The organization said the false information concerned the recent withdrawal of Ukrainian troops in Avdiivka. Ukraine’s top commander said last week that troops would be withdrawn from cities in eastern Ukraine to protect the lives and health of soldiers.

“We are working to restore access. Please do not assume that the information posted to our Ukrainian-language X account is connected to Ukraiska Pravda,” the group said, adding that the English-language account is It added that it had not been hacked.

Liga.net also said on Sunday that a fake news article about the “alleged ‘routing’ of the elite Avdiivka national army by the Russian occupiers” had been published on its site.

“The editors of LIGA.net are not involved in publishing Russian disinformation. The site was hacked by unknown persons,” the group said.

The outlet said that although the article was quickly deleted, it remained active “for some time” and was “automatically spread” on the organization’s X account. He said he is investigating security flaws to prevent such situations.

News of the hack came shortly after Russian President Vladimir gave an interview with critic Tucker Carlson. There, the president spread propaganda about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as part of an ongoing information warfare campaign.

SSSCIP said in a post last year that the “heaviest period of hostile cyber activity” against Ukrainian media occurred at the beginning of the invasion about two years ago, but continued throughout the war.