The Russian Hacker Group Killnet Took Down the Anonymous Website

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The Russian hacker group Killnet said that they took down the Anonymous website and called on Russians not to believe the Internet fakes and to stay calm. Killnet’s appeal was published on one of its Telegram channels on Tuesday, March 1. 
According to the hacker group, “the Internet is full of fake information about hacking Russian banks, attacks on the servers of Russian media and much more. All this has no danger to people. This “information bomb” carries only text. And no more harm. Don’t give in to fake information on the Internet. Do not doubt your country”. 
Hackers blamed the events in Ukraine on the country’s President, Vladimir Zelensky, as well as American leader Joe Biden. The leaders of the EU countries, as they say in the appeal, are following the lead of the United States. 
Russian hackers said that they had already disabled the website of the Anonymous group, along with the website of the Right Sector banned in the Russian Federation. The Anonymous hacker group declared a cyberwar on Russia and claimed responsibility for a hacker attack, for example, on the RT website. 
On February 28, the websites of Izvestia, TASS, Kommersant, Forbes, Fontanka, Mela, E1, Buro 24/7, RBC, Znak.Com and other Russian media were hacked. On the same day, massive DDoS attacks were launched against websites of the Crimean government and authorities. Hackers used a botnet with IP addresses mostly located in

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