Military and political setbacks threaten to rob Putin of the traditional patriotic May 9 boost. Could Russian hackers resort to cyber attacks in an attempt to project an image of strength?
Another cyber incident related to this symbolic date occurred in 2016. "Ukrainian hackers of the anonymous cyber-group alliance FalconsFlame and Trinity launched an operation at 00:00 on May 9, 2016 coded #OpMay9. It involved 9+ successful hackings of the web sites of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) terrorist organization, Russian private military companies (PMC’s) operating under the protection of the FSB in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Russian web outlets disseminating aggressive anti-Ukrainian propaganda. On the defaced websites, the hackers left the hashtags #OpMay9 and #оп9Мая, as well as 3 short videos about the World War 2 and the contribution of the Ukrainian people in the victory over Nazism." (https://web.archive.org/web/20230409143252/https://informnapalm.org/en/ukrainian-hackers-opmay9/)
Another cyber incident related to this symbolic date occurred in 2016. "Ukrainian hackers of the anonymous cyber-group alliance FalconsFlame and Trinity launched an operation at 00:00 on May 9, 2016 coded #OpMay9. It involved 9+ successful hackings of the web sites of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) terrorist organization, Russian private military companies (PMC’s) operating under the protection of the FSB in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Russian web outlets disseminating aggressive anti-Ukrainian propaganda. On the defaced websites, the hackers left the hashtags #OpMay9 and #оп9Мая, as well as 3 short videos about the World War 2 and the contribution of the Ukrainian people in the victory over Nazism." (https://web.archive.org/web/20230409143252/https://informnapalm.org/en/ukrainian-hackers-opmay9/)