Hackers have turned the traffic of Moscow, the capital of Russia, upside down. Taxi application of popular technology company Yandex Hacking Yandex Taxi hackers called dozens of taxis to the same area. This tragicomic situation did not escape the attention of social media.
Hack attempt from Anonymous to Yandex Taxi service
Known to have the most crowded traffic in the world, Moscow experienced an interesting taxi crisis recently. Russia’s popular taxi service Yandex Go (or Yandex Taxi) has fallen into the network of hackers. Hackers evaluated this situation by calling all taxis to the same point.
Speaking to TASS news agency, a Yandex Taxi spokesperson said, “On the morning of September 1, Yandex.Taxi encountered an attacker attempt to disrupt the service. “A few dozen drivers have received orders to go to the Fili region,” he said. He stated that this mistake created congestion in various streets of Moscow for up to 40 minutes.
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Elephant in Moscow Stating that dozens of taxis were called to the region, the spokesperson said that they will work harder to detect such attacks. Confirming that the attackers encountered an attempt to disrupt the application, Yandex said, Cyber attacks against Russia thinks they are a part of it.
Yandex has yet to detect which group carried out this attack. But the other day, the popular hacker group anonymousclaimed responsibility for this attack in a statement he made on his social media account. We know that Anonymous has attacked Russia many times before.
The hacker group also attacked the Russian radio and television network before. Also on social media, the Russian army unmanned aerial vehicle made statements claiming that the company responsible for producing it had accessed their network.
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