Hacktivism

Anonymous offers $52,000 worth of Bitcoin to Russian troops for surrendered tank. Is it fake news?

The popular hacker collective Anonymous is offering to Russian troops $52,000 in BTC for each surrendered tank.

The popular hacker collective Anonymous will reportedly pay $52,000 in BTC for a tank surrendered by Russian troops.

Ukrainian media reported that the hacker group claims to have collected over RUB 1 billion (worth £7.8 million at the time of writing) and is offering to Russian soldiers RUB 5 million ($52,000) for each surrendered tank.

The news was reported by other websites [1,2], I was not able to find the original alleged message from Anonymous.

Soldiers that want to exchange such vehicles for cryptocurrency need to wave a white flag and use the password “million” to accept the offer.

“Russian soldiers, everyone who wants to live with their families, children, and not die, the Anonymous global community has collected RUB 1,225,043 in bitcoin to help you,” reads the alleged message from Anonymous.

The sanctions imposed by the international community on Russia and its biggest financial institutions aim at creating financial instability in the country.

Many Russians attempted to protect their savings from ruble devaluation and sanctions by investing in cryptocurrencies, for this reason, the offer of cryptocurrencies to Russian troops could appear as tempting.

The news is very strange, and at this moment is difficult to track its source and determine its authenticity.

At this time Anonymous has yet to confirm and deny the news, if have any info please contact me.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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