Hamster Combat: A popular game in Ukraine can transmit data to Russian special services

However, it turned out that this game belongs to Russian developers and is on the Russian IP. This is told in the story "1+1". Hamster Combat game is advertised through Instagram, Tik Tok and Telegram. Many Ukrainians are actively sharing the game links and filming rollers, telling how quickly money can be made. Hamster Combat is a simple clcher-game where players run virtual hamsters, earning domestic currency, which can then be exchanged for cryptocurrency.

Those who have already tried to play her say that Hamster Kombat copies another popular application: notcoin, where you also need to earn coins by pressing on the screen and changing the game currency to crypto. Interestingly, no one knew about the game in early spring, and in April it has played more than a million users: Nigeria, Uzbekistan and Russia. Ukraine was in fourth place.

The user X under the Nick "Zlata Prague", who was one of the first noticed that the play about Hammak was registered in the Russian Federation, said that the game has a Russian domain. You can check this through a service that can find information about the domain name of the site - whois. He showed that Hamster Kombat was registered by the RU-CENTER GROUP-one of the largest domain name registrars and providers' hosting included in the RBC Holding.

Another registration of the registrant or administrator lists the Russian capital of Moscow. Now this information about the "hamster" is not available. Russian companies are obliged to store users data on the territory of Russia on servers and submit them to public authorities at a request. This means that the personal data of Ukrainian users can be used for unknown purposes by security officers and special services of the Russian Federation.

The analyst of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, Serhiy Zhukov noted that as soon as the case goes to payments, that is, to the output of cryptocurrency to bank cards, then the Telegram will access either a bank card or a cryptographer. This is not the first such case when the Russian Federation is spying for Ukrainians.