FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed model of men working on computers can be seen in front of the displayed binary code and the words “Hacker” in this July 5, 2021 illustration. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/
March 3, 2022
By James Pearson
LONDON (Reuters) – Ukraine’s “IT army” of volunteer hackers on Thursday announced a new set of targets – including the Belarusian railway network and Russia’s home-grown satellite navigation system GLONASS.
“We must mobilize and intensify our efforts as much as possible,” says a post on the Telegram channel IT Army.
The post listed the group’s top priorities, including Belarusian railways, Russian telecom companies and GLONASS, Russia’s alternative to the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation network.
Ukraine has called on its hacker underground to help protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber-espionage missions against Russian troops, Reuters previously reported. Kyiv announced the formation of its “IT army” on Saturday.
A Belarus-focused hacking team that served as a key base for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine called Belarusian cyber-partisans and told Reuters on Tuesday they had disabled rail transport systems there and attacked the network because it had been used to transport Russian be soldiers.
Russia is calling its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” aimed not at occupying territory but at destroying and capturing its southern neighbor’s military capabilities, which it considers dangerous nationalists.
(Reporting by James Pearson; Editing by Frances Kerry)
https://www.oann.com/ukraines-it-army-targets-belarus-railway-network-russian-gps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukraines-it-army-targets-belarus-railway-network-russian-gps The Ukrainian “IT Army” is targeting the Belarusian railway network, the Russian GPS
