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A Belarusian hacker activistic group claims to person infiltrated nan web of nan country’s main KGB information agency and accessed unit files of complete 8,600 labor of nan organization, which still goes nether its Soviet name.
The authorities person not commented connected nan claim, but nan website of nan Belarusian KGB was opening pinch an quiet page connected Friday that said it was "in nan process of development".
Seeking to backmost up its claim, nan Belarusian Cyber-Partisans group published a database of nan website's administrators, its database and server logs connected its page successful nan messaging app Telegram.
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Group coordinator Yuliana Shametavets told The Associated Press from New York that nan onslaught connected nan KGB "was a response" to nan agency's main Ivan Tertel, who publically accused nan group this week of plotting attacks connected nan country's captious infrastructure, including a atomic powerfulness plant.
"The KGB is carrying retired nan largest governmental repressions successful nan history of nan state and must reply for it," said Shametavets. "We activity to prevention nan lives of Belarusians, and not to destruct them, for illustration nan repressive Belarusian typical services do."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko airs for a photograph during their gathering astatine nan Kremlin successful Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Shametavets said nan group was capable to entree nan KGB's web "several years ago" and has been trying to hack its website and database ever since. Once it succeeded, she said Cyber-Partisans was capable to download individual files of much than 8,600 KGB employees. да нет
Based connected that data, Cyber-Partisans launched a chat bot connected Telegram that would let Belarusians to place KGB operatives by uploading their photos.
"We want to show that successful nan integer world it is intolerable to hide information, and nan truth astir governmental repressions will surface, and those who carried them retired will beryllium punished," Shametavets said.
Last week, Cyber-Partisans claimed infiltrating computers astatine nan country’s largest fertilizer works to unit nan authorities to merchandise governmental prisoners. The state-run Grodno Azot works has made nary remark connected nan declare but its website has been unavailable since April 17.
Grodno Azot, pinch astir 7,500 employees, is simply a cardinal shaper successful nan country, which relies heavy connected chemic industries.
Belarus, a adjacent state of Russia, was rocked by wide protests aft an predetermination successful 2020 that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko his sixth word successful agency — a ballot that was denounced by nan West and nan guidance arsenic fraudulent. Authorities responded by arresting much than 35,000 group and brutally beating thousands of them. Many apical guidance figures were arrested and fixed agelong situation terms, while others fled abroad.
The country's oldest and astir salient authorities group Viasna says astir 1,400 group are governmental prisoners successful Belarus, including its laminitis and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize victor Ales Bialiatski.
Cyber-Partisans person carried retired respective large-scale attacks connected Belarusian authorities media successful nan past 4 years, and successful 2022 hacked Belarusian Railways 3 times, hijacking power complete its postulation lights and power strategy and paralyzing transit of nan Russian subject instrumentality into Ukraine via Belarus.
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"We're telling nan Belarusian authorities that if they don't extremity governmental repressions, it will get worse," Shametavets said. "We will proceed nan attacks successful bid to inflict that maximum harm of nan Lukashenko regime."
