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Russian News Outlet Forced Offline by Cyberattack, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

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The Anonymous hacking collective claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that briefly took down Russian “propaganda station,” as they called it, RT.com.

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Hackers associated with the Anonymous collective claimed responsibility Thursday night for cyberattacks that briefly took down a number of websites identified with the Russian government—in retaliation, they said, for the Ukraine invasion.

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