Russia’s main domestic security agency says unspecified foreign special services are plotting a series of cyber attacks aimed at destabilising the nation’s financial system.
The Federal Security Service, known under its Russian acronym FSB, said the computer servers involved in the planned attacks are located in the Netherlands and belong to Ukrainian company BlazingFast.
The FSB said today that the attacks would be accompanied by a stream of text messages and posts on social networks containing claims of an imminent collapse of Russia’s major banks and the financial system’s breakdown.