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Transportation Security

Someone Hacked Largest Taxi Service In Russia, Ordered All Available Taxis To the Same Location 64

According to Twitter user @runews, someone hacked the largest taxi service in Russia, Yandex Taxi, and ordered all the available taxis to an address on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The tweet includes a video showing the traffic jam that this caused in the middle of Moscow. It's not known who was behind the attack.

In a statement to SouthFront, the company said: "The security service promptly stopped attempts to artificially accumulate cars. Drivers spent about 40 minutes in traffic due to fake orders. The issue of compensation will be resolved in the very near future." The company stressed that in order to exclude such incidents in the future, "the algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has already been improved."
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Someone Hacked Largest Taxi Service In Russia, Ordered All Available Taxis To the Same Location

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  • Funny as shit (Score:4, Insightful)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:03PM (#62844317)

    I guess he sent a few camera-teams there first.

  • in soviet russia we order you!

  • by Bruce66423 ( 1678196 ) on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:16PM (#62844349)

    Send them to the reported addresses of all the MPs... Then of the priests of the Orthodox church... Lots of fun possibilities. Probably don't target the FSB, though...

    • by tragedy ( 27079 )

      Probably don't target the FSB, though..

      Then of the priests of the Orthodox church..

      So, which is it?

        • That won't end well for those who pulled that stunt.

          • by mjwx ( 966435 )

            That won't end well for those who pulled that stunt.

            I doubt it, in Putanist Russia criminals control the government. Wouldn't be surprised to find most of them were on the FSB payroll.

          • If it turns out they were protesting the, um, liberation of Ukraine, probably fall out of a window somewhere.

      • I don't think the average parish priest getting harassed would generate a reaction from the Lubyanka, but you might get unlucky. OTOH this stunt is embarrassing to the elite, so will get some serious attention.

        • by tragedy ( 27079 )

          I don't think the average parish priest getting harassed would generate a reaction from the Lubyanka, but you might get unlucky.

          Yeah, I was thinking mostly of Patriarch Kirill for whom there is evidence that he is literally an FSB agent. Considering that Russia is a security state and that the Russian Orthodox church does practice the sacrement of confession, it would be extremely unusual if the FSB had no infiltrated the clergy. Not that every Russian Orthodox priest is an FSB agent. That part was just hyperbole.

  • Did anyone on the street notice a difference?

  • Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:34PM (#62844393)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
    • Re: (Score:2, Flamebait)

      Considering Russians don't even believe Ukrainians exist, anything to make Russian lives more difficult is warranted.

      The fun part will be when Kherson is liberated and watching how Putin tries to claim it's still being occupied.

      Everything is going to plan, comrade.

    • by geekd ( 14774 ) on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:51PM (#62844455) Homepage

      Why does this have to be about Ukraine?

      It's freaking funny no matter what the motivation.

      • by skam240 ( 789197 )

        But if it isnt about Ukraine then motox doesnt have a reason to go on an anti Ukrainian rant! Did you even stop for a moment to think about motox before writing your post!

        • Comment removed based on user account deletion
          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            I never said this wasnt about Russia and Ukraine, I just answered the above poster's question of "why it had to be".

          • The article isn't about Russia vs Ukraine. The only suggestion that it was related is just a random conjecture added at the end with no evidence to back it up:

            It was not revealed who was behind the attack but it can be supposed that the hackers were linked to the Kiev regime or its western allies.

            "Something went wrong in Russia, so we suppose it must be related to the Ukraine" ... because everything would be absolutely perfect in Russia if only those meanie Ukrainians would stop being so mean and hand over their country. RIGHT?

        • You misspelled motive twice and your name includes 240 (seemingly meaningless) instead of 420...

          You Russian trolls need to step up your game.

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            Not sure what your post is supposed to be about but I didnt use the word motive once. Maybe you're trying (and failing) to be clever?

            You Russian trolls need to step up your game.

            Why would a Russian troll post pro Ukrainian posts? Maybe you just need to go reread things...

          • by skam240 ( 789197 )

            And why would I want 420 at the name of my handle? What am I a thirteen year old stoner? This site didnt even exists when I was young enough to think something like that was cool.

    • Fuck em. A nation is responsible for their leaders, harass away. If they want to double down on stupid then that is up to them. I still know Russians who think that they are saving the world from Nazis.

    • It's unclear how harassing the russian population would help the ucranian cause, other than having more russians side with Putin

      Because it's not about actually hurting Russia's war effort, or even doing anything useful to aid Ukraine in their war effort. It's about getting updoots on Reddit or some other site.

    • by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      It's unclear how harassing the russian population would help the ucranian cause, other than having more russians side with Putin

      The Russian civilian population ALREADY sides with Putin. They believe the whole "special operation" is to cleanse Ukraine of Nazis supported by Europe and the western world. (They're playing the Nazi card hard because in WWII Russia defended itself against the Nazis quite successfully

      Everything done to Russia has been spun as Nazis trying to attack Russia. It's all state controlle

      • There is a small possibility that as ordinary Russians see their access to normal life fading away, maybe they explore the reason and learn something. Or maybe they just get angry. This is the exact same debate that the EU had today about cancelling Visa cooperation with Russia.

        When the entire world no longer welcomes you even if you come with tourist dollars, most people would at least give pause to think about things. Even if not immediately it plants the seeds of thoughts.

      • They believe the whole "special operation" is to cleanse Ukraine of Nazis supported by Europe and the western world. (They're playing the Nazi card hard because in WWII Russia defended itself against the Nazis quite successfully

        Eh dunno if I'd call that a success exactly. Yeah, they repelled the Germans, but basically did so by throwing warm bodies at them until they ran out of bullets. They've more or less used that same strategy in every war since, including in Ukraine, only Ukraine isn't going to run out of bullets any time soon when the west is giving them a limitless supply.

        • Eh dunno if I'd call that a success exactly. Yeah, they repelled the Germans, but basically did so by throwing warm bodies at them until they ran out of bullets.

          And the truth is that they *did* repel the Germans, at a terrible cost. This cost is however forgotten or purposefully ignored. This is because the World War II victory has become a powerful propaganda tool for the Russian state.

          The war was 80 years ago and there are hardly any survivors left to tell the true story. Real history isn't available to the average Russians either. All that's left is the narrative, and Putin controls it. The terrible losses Russia suffered are glossed over, or only mentioned as p

    • Sorry your feelings got hurt.

      How is the weather in Moscow today?

    • Wars are fought on a political level too.

      Hard to continue when the people lose interest or opposing being in a foreign war.
  • by PPH ( 736903 ) on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:35PM (#62844395)

    ... Michael Caine was spotted speeding away in a Mini Cooper loaded with gold.

  • This would be a killer beat in a bank robbing story.
  • by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:11PM (#62844519)

    The company stressed that in order to exclude such incidents in the future, "the algorithm for detecting and preventing such attacks has already been improved."

    So the next "attacks" will send taxis to random places instead of all to the same location.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:25PM (#62844549)
    "... a swarm of Cruise-branded Chevrolet Bolts malfunctioned simultaneously at the same location, resulting in a blockade of cars across a four-lane road that reportedly jammed traffic for hours... The cars occupied three of the four lanes at the intersection of Gough and Fulton streets in San Francisco around midnight last Tuesday, causing passing vehicles to utilize just a single lane to navigate the traffic jam. Between six and seven Cruise employees reportedly responded to the incident. The first arrived on the scene in around 20 minutes and put up traffic triangles, according to the Reddit post. The rest arrived shortly after and were eventually able to move the cars manually, as the cars were said to be lined up around the corner." https://www.thedrive.com/news/... [thedrive.com]
  • The physical manifestation of distributed denial-of-service by way of taxis, LOL!

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