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Killnet Targeted Russian Government Groups First? #shorts

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Before attacking Russian enemies, Killnet, a DDoS service group, initially targeted Russian government entities in November/December 2021. A surprising twist in their origin story. #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra #alexholden #DDoS #Killnet
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imagine that the group that uh became profilic in attacking Russian enemies was first targeting Russian government. Kilnet is a group um in Russia that was started in November of 2021 u that um were just uh now um distributed now services um service that was uh taking money for its um uh targets and this happens uh quite a bit. It was um one of the run of the mills and uh its first targets were um in Russia were highly unusual. In fact, in November and December of 2021, Kilnet uh DOT services were used to attack uh these type of uh groups and these are Russian uh different Russian um government groups. But um imagine that a

group that uh became profilic in attacking Russian enemies was first targeting Russian