A RUSSIAN vigilante hacker has spoken out about how he’s been hacking Ukrainian websites in a shocking new report.
The cybercriminal spoke to the BBC about how he’s targeting Ukraine in his free time apparently without any orders from the Russian government.
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The BBC report gave the hacker the fake name of Dmitry.
He’s said to work at a Russian cyber security company by day.
Outside of work, he claims to be part of a team of six hackers who think they’re being “patriotic” to Russia by waging cyber attacks on Ukraine.
Earlier this week, dozens of Ukrainian websites went down including banking sites and government pages.
The BBC claims that some of these cyber attacks didn’t come from the Russian government but cyber criminals who support Russia.
Dmitry saw what was happening on Wednesday and wanted to join in.
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He wrote on social media: “Considering everyone is attacking Ukraine servers. I am thinking we should cause some disruption too?”
He then claims that his small team attacked Ukrainian government websites by flooding their servers with data.
The BBC says it witnessed the hackers take down one Ukrainian military web page.
Dmitry told the news outlet that the hackers never communicate in person despite two of them working at the same company.
He added: “If my employer found out I would not have a job.”
Dmitry and the other cyber criminals have also been emailing bomb threats to schools, hacking a Ukrainian “rapid response team” and even have access to an official government email address that they plan to use for phishing attacks.
The BBC says Dmitry spoke to them on an encrypted call and used a voice distorter.
He said: “This is just the beginning.
“You’ve got to understand we are being careful and watching what we do at the moment. We could launch ransomware but we haven’t yet.”
Ukraine has been bombarded with cyber attacks since the start of 2022.
Dmitry’s age and exact location are not known but he’s not worried about being caught.
He even hopes the Russian cyber-military are watching him and his team.
The hacker told the BBC: “I think there are certain people in our government who will be very pleased with what we’re doing.
“I would like to work with Russian cyber-authorities, but I would need to think about it first. I can tell you that one mistake could cost you your life when you work for them.”
When asked why he is doing this he chillingly said that he hopes to “help beat Ukraine from behind my computer whilst they die in the streets”.
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