Foreign Policy

Russia-aligned hackers attack Congress’s website

By Brady Knox
Published July 8, 2022 4:18pm ET
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Russia-aligned hackers attack Congress’s website
Congress’s website was hacked for around an hour Thursday evening as a Russia-aligned hacktivist group took credit for turning the text of the site entirely into Russian. The pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Telegram channel. In its message announcing the action, translated by Polina Tyntareva, a […]

Congress’s website was hacked for around an hour Thursday evening as a Russia-aligned hacktivist group took credit for turning the text of the site entirely into Russian.

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