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Now, by combing through that pile of leaked information, scraping phone numbers from emails, and combining the results with those found in other public sources, the creators of WasteRussianTime.today say they've assembled more than 5,000 Russian government phone numbers, both landlines and cell phones, including members of the Russian military police, staff of its parliament, known as the Duma, and even Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB-all of which are now targets of its automated robo-dialing campaign. The Ukrainian government itself at one point released a list of what it said were the names and contact details of 620 Russian intelligence agents. Since Russia began its full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, hacktivists working independently and even rallied by the Ukrainian government have carried out an unprecedented campaign of hacking operations targeting Russian organizations, some of which have resulted in the theft and leak of hundreds of gigabytes of Russians' emails and other private information. Petersburg, within the power circle of Putin, and that’s who we want to annoy and disturb.” The group of artists, activists, and coders behind the site is, according to Shera, called the Obfuscated Dreams of Scheherazade. “We’re hoping for confusion, that they get annoyed, and that these might even be interesting calls to listen to for people who speak Russian,” says one of the site's creators who goes by the name Shera. Visit the site, click a button, and it will cycle through a leaked list of Russian government, military, and intelligence phone numbers to connect two random Russian officials-and allow the site's visitor to silently listen in as those officials waste their time trying to figure out why they're speaking to each other and who initiated the call. Today, a group of international hacktivists launched a website, WasteRussianTime.today, designed to combine prank calling and robocalling into an automated weapon of telephonic annoyance targeted at the Russian state. But perhaps they can, at least, be repurposed to strike a very small and slightly absurd blow against the Russian government's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Robocalls have become a modern scourge, the destroyer of focus, the nuisance that somehow cannot be eradicated. Police agencies in South Florida are warning people to not click on strange links that are sent to them.Ĭopyright 2022 Sunbeam Television Corp. This hack is happening across the United States. They could be saving someone else’s life.” “I don’t want them to come to my house when it’s not an emergency. “I feel horrible because it was like blowing up their phone,” she said. Jara was not going through an emergency, but she said she feels guilty about the whole ordeal. “We’ve turned off the phone, we turned it back on and we realized five voicemails from them contacting me saying this is 911, saying if this is an emergency or not.” “It shows that I called them over 150 times,” Jara said. Hackers even tried to entice victims and posed the link as a tracklist to popular albums while others asked for support for their personal page. Twitter user Samuel Burt tweeted, “Just clicked one of those ‘prank’ links on Twitter, and it started repeatedly calling 911, never panicked so hard in my life.”Īnother user, Steven Wooten, said in a tweet that he clicked on the link and called 911 about 30 times. The 911 hack has gone viral and Twitter users warned others to not click on the link. “It was just a black screen, and it said 911, and every single time you click end, it was like recalling, calling, calling, so there was no way to stop it.” “It physically just looked like it was 911 calling,” Jara said. The hack took over her phone, calling 911 multiple times. I’m sitting there, and I’m clicking end, and it wouldn’t stop.”
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My phone just went blank, and it just started calling 911. “It took a little bit, and it kind of just glitched. “It kind of just looked like a YouTube video, so I clicked on it,” Jara said.