The Kremlin website is subject to dozens of cyber attacks every day – Kommersant

The Kremlin’s website is subject to dozens of cyber attacks every day, but Russian specialists ensure its protection, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. This is how he answered the question whether hackers were trying to prevent the publication of an interview between American journalist Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Peskov assured that “the integrity of the site and its security are adequately ensured.” “I don’t know if there were any extraordinary attacks. But dozens of attacks are carried out on the Kremlin website every day. Every day for a year. There are both strong DDoS attacks and attacks aimed at gaining control over the site,” a Kremlin representative told TASS.

Interview with Mr. Putin was published at night yesterday, February 9th. On the Kremlin website it posted by morning, along with a transcript of the conversation in Russian. During the conversation, the President of the Russian Federation discussed, among other things, situation in Ukrainerelationship with NATO, explosions Nord Streams and the arrest of a Wall Street Journal journalist in Russia Evan Gershkovich. Number of views of the interview on the social network X per day exceeded 150 million Dmitry Peskov assertsthat Mr. Carlson did not agree on the questions before the interview.

Read about what the president said about the possibility of exchanging a WSJ journalist in the Kommersant publication. “The exchange rate was adjusted for the journalist”.

Laura Keffer