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Anonymous hacked Yandex taxi causing a traffic jam in MoscowSecurity Affairs

Anonymous hacked Yandex taxi causing a traffic jam in MoscowSecurity Affairs

The popular collective Anonymous and the IT Army of Ukraine hacked the Yandex Taxi app causing a massive traffic jam in Moscow. This week Anonymous announced to have hacked the Yandex Taxi app, the largest taxi service in Russia, and used it to cause a massive traffic jam in Moscow. The threat actors ordered all available taxis to a particular address. The traffic jam took place in the center of the Russian city on September 1st, 2022,… Source link

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Anonymous claims responsibility for Moscow traffic jam tied to app exploit

Anonymous claims responsibility for Moscow traffic jam tied to app exploit

On Thursday morning, Moscow’s busy Fili district became the site of a traffic jam unlike any before it. Motherboard (via The Verge) reports hackers used Russia’s Yandex Taxi ride-hailing app to order dozens of drivers to converge on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, one of the city’s main thoroughfares. The act caused traffic on part of the already congested street to come to a standstill for about 40 minutes while Yandex worked to address the situation. “On the morning of September 1st, Yandex… Source link

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Anonymous hacked Russian Yandex taxi app causing massive traffic jam

Anonymous hacked Russian Yandex taxi app causing massive traffic jam

Russia has been one of the prime targets of hackers since the country waged war against Ukraine. The latest attack was targeted against a ride-hailing service Yandex Taxi. The news was first published on Reddit.com. For your information, Yandex Taxi is owned by Yandex, Russia’s leading IT corporation, also called Russian Google. It is worth noting that the EU sanctioned the company’s co-founder Arkady Volozh for “de-ranking and removing” content related to Russian aggression… Source link

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Remember when bitcoin was ‘anonymous’?

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) – Bitcoin just isn’t anonymous enough for a growing cohort of crypto users who are seeking greater seclusion. A volatile class of crypto known as privacy coins, created with the primary aim of masking the identity of users and details of transactions, has quietly been gaining ground this month as maturing bitcoin inches towards mainstream finance. Monero and Zcash, among the most popular, have respectively gained 7.6% and 46% since… Source link

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