Ukrainian hackers attacked the Russian payment system "Mir": what awaits the residents of the Russian Federation

They urged Internet users to combine efforts to cause a payment system failure and deprive Russians with the opportunity to pay online purchases or terminals. Anyone can join the DDOS-attack, the instructions provide a special bot. "Today we continue and add ekassir. They are engaged in the development and maintenance of a full cycle of payment transactions. The goal is unchanged - interruptions in the passage of payments and in the work of terminals. Attacks are complex and resourceful, so we urge.

bot, " - wrote hactagers on September 24. According to Komersant, pro-Ukrainian hackers and volunteers generate traffic and load the Mir system with browsers or primitive DDOS instruments. An employee of one of the cybersecurity companies fears that they will succeed and deprive the Russians of non -cash payments, for example, to cause a complete refusal of cards to equy. "The risks are more than real," he said.

The Russian expert in the field of payment cards Dmitry Vishnyakov noted that a failure in the work of the system can turn out to be big problems for Russia, because the suspension of processes will even for a few hours cause a wave of distrust of banks. Alexei Smirnov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Basalt, added: In addition to the system overload, DDOS attacks also allow hackers to find vulnerability in defense that can later be used to break or steal data.

It is about payments with cards not only in Russia, but also in the territory of some "friendly" countries: Turkey, Vietnam, South Korea, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Several other countries also considered the support of Mir Maps, including tourist Egypt, Thailand and Cuba. As they wrote earlier, Turkish banks stop working with Russian Mir maps.