Zelensky confirms Ukrainian hackers breached Russia’s emergency alert app in retaliation for earlier attack on Ukraine’s warning system

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that hackers from Ukraine targeted a Russian mobile app used by the Emergency Situations Ministry to send alerts about emergencies. This cyberattack was a response to a previous intrusion on Ukraine's own warning system called "Air Alert," Zelensky explained in an interview with PBS News.

The attack on "Air Alert" was part of a long history of Russian cyberattacks on various systems, including banking, pension, and social support networks, Zelensky stated. The Ukrainian app "Air Alert" was breached on the night of November 1, when users received misleading notifications about radiation and chemical dangers, a pending street fight, and a message in Russian: "Hi!

There will be a nuclear alert across all of Ukraine right now! Don’t worry, the Oreshnik is coming!" Just two days later, on the morning of November 2, a cyberattack struck a mobile app belonging to Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry. The targeted app's users were informed that "nuclear warheads" had been launched across the entire country.

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