New Delhi: The ongoing Russo-Ukraine conflict is not only contested by conventions on land, air and sea. When Russia has started its soil’s attack into the sovereign region of Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, parallel online war also exploded between the two sides This internet war has taken several forms, including memes distributed by verified handles and government officials, cyber attacks on both parties, the stories of uncoly verified war heroes are marked as “wrong information”, and Volodymyr President Zelensky himself appears as On-ground hero active in the center of conflict.
Data-erasing malware enters conflict
On February 23, the Cybersecurity ESET and Symantec firm marked the level of unprecedented cyber attacks on the Ukrainian government and the banking website, making it “inaccessible”, according to the BBC Lasted after a series of distributed Dental of Service (DDoS) attacks, the second form of this cyber attack was reported to use malware data erasers called Hermeticwipers “Malware utilizes disk or storage management software to damage local data on the device, after it reboots the computer. It is also able to attack data recovery tools on a system and reboot system system, so it is difficult for devices to reboot into the operating system, Basically it makes it unable to be operated, “Hindu explains how Hermeticwiper operates.
In response, Ukraine had received Cybersecurity assistance from allied countries and from the Global Hacker Collective Anonymous, which reportedly stated the war on the Vladimir Putin regime on Thursday Meta and Twitter have also taken action on the wrong information and vigilante pro-Russian hackers such as Ghostwriter Ghostwriter had previously hacked the account of several East Ukrainian politicians, lowered NATO and encouraged anti-Western Russian propaganda Apart from the gap between the capabilities of the cyber warfare between the two countries, Ukraine has firmly pushed back rival narratives through collective resistance on social media.
Social Media crackdown on pro-Russian content
Meta, a Facebook parent company, announced last Friday that it would stop advertising from Russian country media. This is their first vengeance in limiting “false news” and “misleading information” in the current crisis. Twitter and YouTube follow and prohibit it from monetising content Meta’s statement said: “We have established a special operating center managed by experts from all companies, including original Russian and Ukrainian speakers, who monitor platforms all the time, allowing us to respond to real-time problems.”
On Sunday night, the same experts announced hard action against hackers related to the operation called “Ghostwriter” which according to the statement “actor threat”. The company “takes a network run by people in Ukraine and Russia targets Ukraine because it violates our policies for non-authentic behaviors that are coordinated. They run websites disguise as independent news entities and create false personas in many social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram , Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Odnoklassniki and VK, “said the statement Twitter also fought the entry of fake videos shared and distributed by the user. One of the videos uploaded in January 2022 had misleading information to the video. Reading information, “Various parts of Ukraine will be attacked by Russia.”
Need a video after factual details appear. Twitter revealed the video first shared on Tik Tok with the text “Strike Lightning in Power Plants”. The video has six million views before being lowered. Now a bigger challenge is to protect high profile individuals from hackers that are able to compromise accounts and disseminate wrong information.
Russian ‘wine’ for Ukrainian ‘headache’
Over the past few months, the official social media handle of Ukraine has shared dark memes, sometimes funny, war-themed. Users quickly criticize and there are instant reactions to these posts which are clearly regarded as political directions by many people at a pit-unfortunate time In the morning the invasion, for example, Ukraine posted a political cartoon last week casts Hitler with Putin who pulled a strong reaction, blamed the handle to lower the ongoing invasion, rebuking the crisis.
The cartoon received almost 2 million likes and 450,000 retweet, encouraged Ukraine to clarify that cartoons were not only memes, but “we and your reality now” Another tweet from December 2021 shows “types of headaches” by “living next to Russia”. In response, Russian Twitter handles posted a “diagnosis” of this “headache” who said Russian Crimean wine could cure it. While Ukrainian memes become viral with hundreds of thousands of likes and retweet, Russian response does not break the 2,000 mark.
War hero narratives with Zelensky in the forefront
Rumors around the “Kyiv ghost” and the last seat Border Zmiyni Island has done rounds on all social media platforms that lead to suspicion that online video might be fake. The user questioned that this instance was forced online to change the ongoing narrative The video showed a jet of Ukraine which jumped who shot down six Russian fighter planes right when Russia attacked the main cities. The description focused on how the pilot was “a nightmare to attack Russian aircraft” while experts believe that it could not shoot down six fighter planes Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has posted the pilot’s image on Twitter. However, the photo came from April 2019 and was first posted by an official account of Ukrainian forces. Poroshenko hasn’t come down tweets.
In the case of the Battle of Zmiinyi Island, President Zelensky said that all 13 of the island’s border guards had perished and would be annumously awarded the “Ukrainian Hero”. But a few hours later, the Ukrainian border guard service said that the guards might live and arrested by Russia in the city of Crimean Sevastopol Zelensky has also built the reputation of the people as president of the war through its social media activities, in the form of life of Instagram and V-log from the ground with the cabinet members. His popularity surged after he refused to accept US offers from a safe road abroad.
However, some of the photos distributed by supporters was also marked for the wrong information. For example, one post shows Zelensky wearing a military uniform, reading text, “This is the President of Ukraine Zelensky. He took off his clothes and put on a military uniform to join the troops in combat to protect Ukrainian homeland. He is a true leader Users share that he allegedly joined the army to defend Ukraine. The photos turned out to be from December 2021, when he visited troops in the Donbas area, India today reported.
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