Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: Undetermined
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Message Manipulation
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Anonymous claimed to have remotely accessed printers across Russia and forced them to print over 100,000 documents with messages against war and propaganda, and how to bypass censorship in the country. The hacked printers were forced to print PDFs with a message informing Russians that "their president, the government, and media all have been feeding them lies."