Russia and Ukraine suffered mutual cyber attacks this morning, affecting the alert systems for the population of both countries, media and social networks reported.
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02/11/2026
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Lusa
A Russia and Ukraine carried out this early in the morning mutual hacker attacks on their population alert systems, today they reported media and social networks from both countries.
The mobile application of the Russian Ministry of Emergency was cyberattacked and users received notifications of “nuclear warheads” launched against all regions of the country, indicated the Russian independent media Meduza.
The Ministry of Emergency confirmed the attack and stressed that “criminals managed to send mass messages with false information to the population,” although it indicated that the general alert system was not affected.
The Russian independent channel on Telegram, Astra, indicated that the Russian website hosting supplier Beget was also attacked, one of the largest in the country, whose infrastructure guarantees the operation of more than 700,000 active domains in the Russian Internet segment.
According to the Down Detector portal, which reports on network access failures, there have been numerous complaints regarding the operation of resources hosted at Beget.
In Ukraine, in turn, the mobile aerial alert application was hacked, which sent messages about the danger of radiation and chemical attacks, as well as the threat of urban combat.
In the application also appeared a message in Russian that said: “Cheers! Throughout Ukraine there will now be a nuclear alert. Don’t worry, a [ballistic missile] Oreshnik was launched!”
The Ukrainian Air Force published on the platform They broadcast a message in which they recognized that “the Air Alert application was probably compromised”.
“There is no risk of radiation! Keep calm and follow our messages on our channel”, he added.
The application itself indicated on the same network of messages that “third parties carried out an unauthorized intrusion into the operation of the application”. “We disabled the ‘push’ notifications and temporarily suspended their operation,” he warned.
He also stated that “the application does not store personal data, so there is no risk to users”. “We ask you to in no case click suspicious notifications links. Our team is working to restore the operation of the application. We apologize for the disturbance ", noticed.
The day before, a group of Belarusian hackers claimed to have invaded the servers of the Russian Federal Statistical Office, Rosstat, committing about 25,000 computers and appropriating 23 terabytes of sensitive information, including Russian casualties in the war in Ukraine.