Russian Duma Praises Hacker Crew for Defacing 'Anti-Russian' Web Sites

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via zone-h.

[snip]

A group of Russian hackers were congratulated in the State Duma this week for unleashing a crippling patriotic cyber 
blow on an Israeli Web site that published "anti-Russian" ideas in a recent article.

The congratulatory statement is believed to be the first official public statement by a government official giving 
thanks to Web site defacers for knocking offline an ideological foe. The decree will undoubtedly add to the debate of 
the existence of state-sponsored hacking groups.

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More:
http://www.zone-h.org/news/read/id=206004

- ferg


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