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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Russian hackers attack Russian hackers over Russian hackers using Russian hackers against Russian hackers.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why would Putin shut down his own operation?!

Ahhhhh, "mega hack" doesn't refer to Putin, oops 🤷

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago

I don't watch TV myself, but people report that this attack was overestimated by journos for catchy headlines. The web player on their site is broken, and we don't know if the claim about whiping their backups is true, but the stream of bullshit is going on on both cabel and internet platforms. Maybe, they now manage it by putting way more effort than usual, but Ostankino is still standing towering over Mordor, cursing everything in it's long shadow. There's a suggestion, that such a strike would first and foremost target russian speakers accross the borders, like vatniks in EU.

https://reddit.com/comments/1fy2f14

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 70 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

State-owned news outlet Gazeta(dot)ru reported that the Ukrainian-linked hacker group “sudo rm -RF” was behind the attack.

HACK THE ~~PLANET~~ RUSSIANS

Edit: Removed direct link.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm certain someone working there typed "sudo rm -RF" into the console, deleting everything, and they blame it on a "hacker group".

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 26 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's a funny AF name. If not for the little Bobby Tables of it all. Somewhere, some news aggregator accidentally purged everything.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is why you should never allow your terminal to execute news headlines directly. You're definitely going to want to sandbox your RSS autoexecutor.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

This gave me a chuckle.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
rm: invalid option -- 'F'

n00bs

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i think the RF here stands for russian federation

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, just like you can type sudo rm -fr / and it erases the French.

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone makes that mistake at some point

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 hours ago

I mean, I would not go as far as calling France a mistake... maybe a bit quirky is all.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

“Mega hack” is a thing now?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

SLAMS Putin

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I thought it was something to do with Kim Dotcom's Mega at first. Such a dumb headline.

[–] Wilshire@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's shorter than Super Cyber Sabotage

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

“Ultra-Mega-Super-Gyro-Hack-3000 v: 2.3.6”

[–] Letme@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I read MAGA hack, and didn't blink an eye

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I bet Kim Dotcom was given quite a scare by this headline.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours ago

I'm pretty sure Kim Dotcom has bigger concerns than getting hacked right now

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago