Anonymous launches cyberwar on Belarus for involvement in Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Anonymous-affiliated collective Spid3r claims to have attacked Belarus’ government sites in retaliation for the country’s support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Spid3r made the announcement on Twitter, publishing screenshots of various websites connected with the Belarus state being down, including the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Economy:

Furthermore, the websites of the Ministry of Education, the National Legal Information Center, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Customs Committee, and the State Committee websites were also down.

The hacker group, that has been very vocal about declaring “Cyber War” against Russia, reportedly hacked Russian state TV channels to broadcast live streams from the Ukrainian front lines last February.

As for the hacking of the Belarus government websites, Anonymous made the announcement on Sunday. At the time of writing, the majority of these sites seem to have been brought back online.

The Anonymous hacker group TheZero hacked some Russian domains this month. TheZero has deployed a message on those Russian domains which says “STOP PUTIN, STOP WAR”.