Russia's revenge is too crazy! This organization has been unbanned, and the era of piracy is back...
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Source: Lei Technology
Although the Internet is not a lawless place, as a virtual world, people with strong hacking skills can always establish bases outside the law on the Internet. You may think that Xiaolei is going to write about adult websites again? No, this time I want to talk to you about Rutracker, a Russian cracking resource website.
If you often browse the Internet and are keen on downloading various resources, you may have heard of the website Rutracker. Although it is not as famous as The Pirate Bay, if the resources you want cannot be found on other websites, then you can try your luck on Rutracker and you will get good results.
Rutracker once became the home of many Internet libertarians, with as many as 13 million registered users. Thanks to Russia's powerful civilian hacker groups, there are also a large number of pirated and cracked resources shared on Rutracker, ranging from professional software to games, from movies to lossless music, and even unreleased internal music CD resources.
However, in 2016, in order to meet the access requirements of streaming platforms such as Netflix, Russia included Rutracker in the banned list and began hunting down a group of Russian hackers related to the website. This once-popular website announced that it would move its servers, and many active cracking teams began to suspend their activities to evade official pursuit.
Interestingly, even though the Russian civilian hacker groups stopped being active, Rutracker did not shut down. Relying on hacker teams from other countries, Rutracker still maintains the update of some resources. Of course, today's Rutracker is far less than the golden age when it was first established, and the number of resource updates has declined significantly.
A few years have passed, and those who have been following international news recently should know that the Russian-Ukrainian war has broken out. The impact of the war is that a number of streaming media and game platforms from Netflix to EPIC announced that they would stop operating in Russia. Subsequently, a news report said that Russia had released the address of the previously banned Rutracker main site and lifted the ban on related aspects.
This news is tantamount to untying the shackles on the feet of Russian hackers, allowing this group of hackers who follow Internet liberal activities to attack cities without worries. Perhaps readers are still not aware of how explosive this news is, then it is obvious that they do not have a clear understanding of the concept of Russian hackers.
Defender of Internet liberalism?
From purchasing games on Steam to watching authentic movies and TV series on bilibili and iQiyi, these activities should be commonplace for the new generation of Internet users. However, for the "old netizens" who have been active on the Internet before 2010, their earliest concepts of games and overseas movies and TV series all started with BT seeds.
At that time, there was not much awareness of genuine games on the Chinese Internet. Even Steam did not have the concept of a Chinese region. If you wanted to buy genuine games, the only way was to buy genuine boxed discs or spend a high price to buy foreign games in the US or Hong Kong regions of Steam. Moreover, because there were no servers set up in China, the download speed would not be able to fully utilize the bandwidth like it is now.
Moreover, for Chinese netizens at that time, the cost of a copy of a genuine game was tens of dollars, which was an unaffordable expense, so pirated games became the main choice for most single-player players. 3DM, GamerSky and other websites were famous pirated game download websites in the past. Some netizens who did not know the truth even believed that these websites were supported by hacker bosses, otherwise where did they get so many pirated games from?
In fact, whether it is 3DM or GamerSky, they are basically Chinese translation porters (there were some cracking groups later, but that was a later thing). What they do most is to embed the machine-translated Chinese files into the folders of pirated games downloaded from the Internet, and then package them as "free installation Chinese version" or "green Chinese version". So where do the resources of the pirated games themselves come from?
The answer is that they were downloaded from websites such as Rutracker. The most famous of them is IGGGEMENS. There are a large number of individual hackers and hacker groups active on this website. Almost every game is cracked and uploaded on the day of its release, and almost no game is spared.
Among this group of hackers who are keen on cracking games, Russian hackers are the most powerful and numerous. Russian hackers can be found in many well-known cracking organizations. They not only crack games, but also various systems and professional software from PS to PR and even Windows are almost their targets.
For example, the first hacker to crack Windows XP came from Russia, which opened the era of global pirated systems. It was also the cracking of Windows XP that forced Microsoft to change its business thinking, from fighting against piracy to giving up fighting against piracy, focusing on increasing its market share, and then increasing revenue from other aspects.
Even top Internet companies like Microsoft have fallen into the hands of Russian hackers, so one can imagine the fate of other companies. Basically, not many companies can survive two rounds of attention from Russian hackers. Adobe, Blizzard, Ubisoft, and even various security companies have all been visited by Russian hackers, and have left behind a lot of black history.
After 2000, a large number of cracking organizations emerged in Russia like mushrooms after rain. They focus on cracking various software and like to upload the software to major websites for free for users to download after cracking. They claim that this is the embodiment of the spirit of the Internet and believe that only "freedom, openness, equality and sharing" can promote the further development of the Internet.
Therefore, they upload various software, games, and streaming works to various forums for free, so that all users who can connect to the Internet can freely obtain what they want. Even users in countries banned by the West can freely use and download various software and streaming works.
Although Xiaolei does not support piracy, to be frank, it is because our income level has increased that we can have the confidence to say so. For Internet users in the third world, it is pirated resources that allow them to access the improvement in quality of life brought about by the development of the Internet at a low cost. Moreover, many domestic film and television works that have no legitimate control channels can only be watched through pirated resources.
With the resurgence of the Russian cracking group, we may see a large number of free, high-quality cracking resources appearing on major forums.
There are only two kinds of hackers: ordinary hackers and Russian hackers
Are Russian hackers really that powerful? From the information collected by Xiao Lei, it is true. The United States previously accused Russia of interfering in their election. Although Russia denied it, relevant people believe that Russian hackers do have the ability to interfere in a country's election.
Some people are curious about how to intervene? It's very simple. Hack into the candidate's computer or server to obtain some evidence of the candidate's illegal profit or politically incorrect speech, and then make the relevant documents public to undermine the supporters' confidence in the candidate. As long as the unfavorable information of some candidates is selectively released, the candidate's support rate can be manipulated.
For example, the most famous similar incident in recent years is the Hillary Clinton incident in the United States. As Hillary's private emails were exposed, this popular American presidential candidate was soon branded as a "traitor". Although she was able to escape danger through subsequent political operations, she could no longer participate in the presidential election and could only turn to supporting other presidential candidates.
In addition to manipulating elections, Russian hackers are also good at invading the servers of various organizations and companies, including bank servers. In 2010, the FBI launched an investigation into a Russian hacker group and believed that this group of hackers was related to a cyber intrusion case at Citigroup.
According to the FBI, Russian hackers broke into Citibank's servers, stole tens of millions of dollars and walked away without attracting the attention of Citigroup's security department . Although Citigroup later denied that it had ever been attacked, banks are reluctant to disclose related cases in most cases to avoid making customers doubt the bank's security.
Even more interesting is the invasion of Nasdaq in 2014. As one of the core of the US financial system, the importance of Nasdaq is self-evident. Moreover, because of the large-scale use of online transactions, Nasdaq's network defense level may be second only to physical isolation (abbreviated as: disconnection from the Internet).
However, even a server with such strict defenses was still hacked. An alarm message alarmed various departments in the United States. After expert analysis, it was concluded that hackers had successfully hacked into Nasdaq's servers and gained access to at least one US stock exchange. If not handled properly, it could directly lead to chaos or stagnation in the financial system, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars in losses.
The relevant US departments subsequently investigated the intrusion but were unable to locate the identity of the hacker group. They could only conclude that "it should be a hacker group from a certain country, most likely from Eastern Europe or Northern Europe." Finally, after several months of investigation without any results, the hacker group that invaded Nasdaq finally couldn't sit still and took the initiative to admit the intrusion. Although they did not claim to be Russian, subsequent investigations found that the main members of this organization should be Russian hackers.
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the world's largest hacker group "Anonymous" announced that it would invade Russian websites and servers to help Ukraine. Subsequently, several Russian websites were invaded for a short period of time, but soon returned to normal. Then the official website and server of "Anonymous" were captured by the Russian hacker group "Killnet" and posted their own statement.
With the power of a single country fighting against hackers from all over the world, it is no wonder that some people say that hackers are only divided into two types: ordinary hackers and Russian hackers. So, when the Russian hackers are freed from their reins by the government, Xiao Lei is also very curious about what will happen next.
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