ABelarusian authorities have not commented on the allegation, but the KGB website, which still uses the Soviet designation, opened today with a blank page and only the indication that it was “under programming”.
To confirm its claim, the Belarusian group Cyber-Partisans published a list of the site’s administrators, its database and server logs on its Telegram channel.
The group’s coordinator, Yuliana Shametavets, told the Associated Press agency in New York that the attack on the KGB “was a response” to the head of the agency, Ivan Tertel, who this week publicly accused the group of planning attacks on infrastructure. criticism of the country, including a nuclear power plant.
“The KGB is conducting the biggest political repression in the country’s history and must answer for it. We work to save the lives of Belarusians and not to destroy them, as the country’s repressive special services do,” Shametavets accused.
Last week, Cyber-Partisans said they broke into the computers of the country’s largest fertilizer factory to pressure the government to release political prisoners.
State company Grodno Azot has not commented on the allegation, but its page has been unavailable since April 17.
Belarus, a close ally of Russia, was rocked by massive protests following a controversial 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko his sixth term in office in a vote denounced as fraudulent by the West and the opposition.
The authorities responded by arresting more than 35,000 people and many important opposition figures were sentenced to long prison terms, while others went into exile abroad.
Cyber-Partisans have carried out several large-scale attacks on Belarusian state media outlets over the past four years and, in 2022, hacked into the country’s railway system three times and took control of its traffic lights and control systems, paralyzing the transit of Russian military equipment to the front in Ukraine through Belarus.
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