When hackers succeed in crashing a site, the line of code is replaced by a now-famous battle cry: “Russian warship go fuck yourself!”
hor has two MacBooks: “One I use for work and the other for attacking Russian websites,” he told me cheerfully. The 30-year-old, who wouldn’t tell me his surname, lives in Lviv in western Ukraine and works as a product manager for Jooble, a Ukrainian website that helps people around the world “find the job of their dreams”.
The hit-list includes everything from the Central Bank of Russia and the National Bank of Belarus, to Interfax, the Russian state newswire and the Kremlin. They’re also targeting Russian-backed media in Donetsk and Luhansk, the self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine. Ihor and his fellow hackers, who work together through Telegram, an encrypted messaging service, have installed software on their computers which spew out multiple requests to the website in question.
Ihor is delighted when that works, and enjoys reading social-media posts from frustrated Russians. The idea, he said, was not to destroy the entire Russian banking system or suspend all government services, but to disrupt everyday life in Russia so much that it feels like nothing is working and “creates a kind of panic in the country”.ooble, the recruitment site that Ihor works for, was founded in Ukraine in 2007 and now has 90m monthly users worldwide.
Prokofiev’s colleagues are spamming Russian and Belarusian email addresses with information about the war. “I signed up for the Jooble mailing list,” one Russian emailed in response to a missive from the website. “Every day, vacancies used to come to my email, but now when I open them, I see anti-war messages with calls for rallies. When I click ‘unsubscribe’ I get the same messages again.”
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