In six months 95 hacker groups attacked Russia

In the first six months of 2025, 95 hacker groups periodically attacked Russia, which is a record in the history of monitoring such activity, the press service of BI.ZONE, a digital risk management company, told Izvestia. According to industry representatives, last year the number of groups attacking Russian government agencies and companies was almost 2.5 times less — about 40.

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More than 60% of the groups are pro—Ukrainian hacktivists from Eastern Europe, who have become more active against the background of their own, according to data from InfoWatch.

"Part of the world community actually approved the politically motivated attacks, they have become systemic. These hacker groups often become an instrument of external influence, because they can be controlled through so—called information stuffing, seeking to activate cyber attacks on Russian structures at the right moment," said Alexey Shcherbakov, Technical director of the Lukomorye IT ecosystem (RTK IT Plus LLC).

Yandex Browser added that hackers are hijacking Russian websites by posting fraudulent malware pages on them. The browser's neural networks periodically detect fraudulent pages that are secretly hosted on the websites of bona fide owners.

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Surge of activity: Russia is being attacked by a record number of hackers