Think about turning in your TV for the morning information and seeing a army parade of one other nation as an alternative! That’s what occurred in Latvia on Might ninth, 2024, a special occasion in Russia to have fun profitable World Conflict 2.
On Thursday, a pro-Russian group referred to as “Russian Order is One (Русский Порядок Един)” hacked into the system and switched the channels to point out the Russian Victory Day parade as an alternative of Latvian packages. It’s like somebody took over the TV station however from a pc!
In keeping with Ivars Abolinš, chairman of the Nationwide Digital Mass Media Council, considered one of Latvia’s primary communications operators that handles a number of tv channels, Balticom, skilled a cyberattack, shedding management of retransmissions.
Nevertheless, Latvian officers confirmed that the hackers didn’t immediately goal Balticom infrastructure, as an alternative, they attacked an interactive TV server in Bulgaria, retransmitting modified content material of a Might ninth army parade exterior the Kremlin in Moscow. Nevertheless, the dwell footage was solely seen by round 5% of Balticom’s subscribers.
❗️Šodien visās ziņās publicēts dažu sekunžu video, kur @tv3lv #balticom it kā pārraida 9.maija parādi no Maskavas. BET garajā versijā redzams, ka tas patiesībā bija putina režīmu izsmejošs materiāls. Brīdinu, video ietverta necenzēta leksika un redzami nepatīkami kadri. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/N4LazXQbxw
— Kaspars Adijāns (@Kadijans) Might 9, 2024
Cert.lv, an Information Technology Safety Incident Response Establishment, is investigating the incident with Balticom, citing that it’s almost certainly a part of Russia’s hybrid struggle and such provocations are more likely to proceed sooner or later. Nevertheless, it stays unclear how the hackers breached the Bulgarian servers.
To your info, that is the second such incident up to now few weeks the place dwell TV transmissions have been hacked. On April seventeenth, Russian artists’ songs and propaganda clips have been manipulated throughout a dwell broadcast of the Ukrainian channel Freedom on the Tet platform, which lasted for 20 minutes.
This incident exhibits menace actors’ potential to control delicate occasions and unfold false info. The excellent news is that Latvia is working arduous to search out the hackers and ensure this doesn’t occur once more. They’re additionally methods to enhance safety for corporations that assist ship TV exhibits. This can make it more durable for hackers to mess with what we watch.
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