The hacker group `` Anonymous '' steals `` a huge amount of data that takes several years to analyze '' from Russia

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Anonymous has been waging cyberwarfare against Russia. In the past six months, Anonymous has hacked more than 2,500 sites targeting military personnel and government agencies, and some of the data has been leaked online. It is estimated that it will take several years to analyze all of the data.

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According to Jeremiah Fowler, co-founder of cybersecurity firm Security Discovery, Anonymous is working alongside direct hacks against Russia to provide information to Ukraine, such as finding and notifying vulnerabilities before Russia can exploit them. We are doing cyber security support. Since they are also training for DoS attacks, they seem to be able to participate in cyber attacks regardless of their technical skills as long as they have an environment where they can connect to a computer and the Internet.

Examples of data obtained by anonymous hacking include the following.

・1.1 million emails (equivalent to 1.1 TB) by ALET, a customs broker
・Equivalent to 28GB of data used by the Central Bank of Russia
・Personal information of 120,000 Russian soldiers believed to be fighting in Ukraine
・1.23 million e-mails (equivalent to 1.7 TB) from Elektrocentromontazh, a power-related organization
・575,000 emails (equivalent to 432GB) from real estate management company Sawatzky
・Emails and files of Gazregion, a gas pipeline company, equivalent to 222GB
・768,000 emails (equivalent to 728GB) from Gazprom Linde Engineering, a joint venture between the Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom and the European gas operator Linde
・Equivalent to 440GB of email from Technotec, an oil and gas production company
- Equivalent to 446 GB of email from the Russian Federation Agency for Cultural Affairs
・Blagoveshchensk city hall mail 150GB equivalent
・Email 116GB from Tver Governor's Office
・20 years of data from Russian state broadcaster VGTRK
・Russian Railway staff database
・Equivalent to 1TB of data such as emails and court files from Rustam Kurmaev and Partners, a law firm with 455 clients including global companies and banks
・Equivalent to 759 GB of data including over 1 million emails from IT company NPO VS, which is in charge of IT infrastructure management for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Home Affairs

Fowler estimates that it will take several years to analyze these vast amounts of data. Security company Cyberint researcher Shmuel Gihon also agrees, ``I didn't expect to get this much data in such a short time, so I don't even know what to do with the information.''

In addition, Mr. Fowler said that hacking and hacktivism (hacking used to express political will and achieve political goals) are illegal cyber crimes and do not intend to tolerate or encourage them. Anonymous has unlocked the mystery of Russia's cyber capabilities.' It expresses that what was once thought to be an 'iron curtain' may have turned out to be a 'paper curtain.'