Taxi for Putin! Hackers bring gridlock to Moscow by sending hundreds of cabs to fake pick-up po

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Yandex Taxi, a Russian app similar to Uber that allows users to order cabs to their location, was targeted on Thursday morning - with hundreds of drivers being sent to the same point in Moscow....
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Daily Mail
2022-09-02T08:35:20Z
Hackers targeted a Russian taxi app on Thursday, sending hundreds of drivers to the same Moscow address causing huge traffic jams in the city centre.
As a result of the hack, taxis flooded to Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt - a major road that runs east to west leading into the centre of the Russian capital.
With its eight to ten lanes, Kutuzovsky Prospekt is rarely jammed. However, drivers spent about 40 minutes in traffic due to the fake pick-up orders.
The company said its security department 'immediately stopped attempts to artificially' order the taxis. However, this was not enough to stop the gridlock.
'Drivers still spent about 40 minutes in traffic jams due to fake orders. The issue of compensation will be resolved in the near future,' the company said.
It noted that it had already addressed the vulnerability that enabled the hack.
Footage from Moscow showed the gridlock. Video from inside one of the cabs showed dozens of yellow cars barely moving - all pointing in the same direction.
The person recording the video then showed his phone screen, which displayed an address on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
No one has taken responsibility for the hack, but it comes as Vladimir Putin's forces continue their invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.
In addition to the fighting on the ground, each side has also engaged in cyber warfare - carried out by the respective states or vigilantes.
Russia has long been known for launching cyber attacks against other nations that get on its bad side. One recent example saw pro-Kremlin hackers target Latvia's government after the country declared Russia a sponsor of terrorism.
However, Kyiv has turned Moscow's own cyber warfare tactics on itself, with citizen hackers targeting government infrastructure, trolls targeting Russian diplomats - and Ukraine controlling the narrative of the war online.
In the days leading up to the war, Mykhailo Fedorov - Ukraine's digital minister and President Volodymyr Zelensky's right hand man on tech - called on volunteers to create an 'IT Army' of hackers to help in his country's struggle against Russia.
Since then, dozens of Russian websites have been taken out of action. Russian state media has also been targeted, and sensitive information leaked.
Vast number of OSINT (open-source intelligence) social media accounts have also been tirelessly keeping tabs on the on-going war in Ukraine.
This has meant that Putin's troop movements have been in the public domain, Russian war atrocities have quickly come to light, and misinformation quickly fact-checked - countering the Kremlin's vast propaganda machine.

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