Unauthorized actors infiltrated Ukraine's national emergency alert mobile app late Sunday, transmitting false alarms in three languages regarding imminent radiation and urban combat. Operators quickly halted the alert channel and urged the public to refrain from opening suspicious links embedded in the messages. Russian authorities reported a corresponding digital attack on their own emergency ministry system around the same time. The breach coincided with the conclusion of a six-day local ceasefire, immediately followed by a Russian drone strike on a Kherson hospital.
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Operators temporarily suspended the compromised Ukrainian emergency channel while warning…: Operators temporarily suspended the compromised Ukrainian emergency channel while warning users to avoid interacting with unverified links.
The brief humanitarian pause allowed hundreds of civilians to evacuate Oleshky, but Russi…: The brief humanitarian pause allowed hundreds of civilians to evacuate Oleshky, but Russian forces also used it to resupply ammunition and rotate troops.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov ruled out extending temporary local truces to other op…: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov ruled out extending temporary local truces to other operational sectors along the front lines.
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Unknown hackers have targeted Ukraine’s nationwide emergency alert mobile app, sending residents in Kyiv a warning that they were at risk of an imminent nuclear strike.
The app reported a high possibility of nuclear radiation late on Sunday. It also wrongly warned of a chemical threat to the Ukrainian capital and street-to-street fighting. The messages were written in English with spelling mistakes, as well as in Ukrainian.
Many residents ignored the alerts, which began shortly before 11pm local time, assuming that the app had been compromised. Others were scared. “I was briefly terrified,” one woman, Nina, said. “I lay on my bed and wondered what was coming.”
A message written in Russian also claimed Ukraine was about to be hit by Oreshnik missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads. The Kremlin has used the ballistic weapon three times before, hitting the Kyiv region, and the cities of Dnipro and Lviv.
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