Russians sent urgent nuclear warning after emergency alert system hacked

Russians sent urgent nuclear warning after emergency alert system hacked Russian media and local authorities in the regions later confirmed that the Emergencies Ministry's services had been hacked after the message was issued to residents of Voronezh Oblast A Ukrainian partisan movement has reportedly hacked into a Russian emergency app, warning of a fabricated nuclear threat. The incident comes just hours after Russia carried out the same tactic on Ukraine. ATESH, a resistance movement operating in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine and within Russia itself, sent out the fake messages on the Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry application overnight, UNN reports. Screenshots show a message for residents of Voronezh Oblast, dated November 2 at 2.47am warning of nuclear warheads at all regions of Russia. In the alert, residents are told to stock up on food for three weeks and hide in basements - 'otherwise you are f*****'. Russian media and local authorities in the regions later confirmed that the Emergencies Ministry's services had been hacked. On the evening of November 1, users of Ukraine's "Air Raid Alert" app users received false notifications about nuclear, radiation and chemical threats, as well as the danger of street fighting. Ukrainian officials warned that these messages were untrue. Unauthorized interference with the service was considered one of the possible causes of the incident. ATESH claimed to have hacked the Russian app, however, there is no independent confirmation of the scale of the cyberattack or the number of users who received the fake messages. In the past, Russia has used cyber-attacks as a means of interfering with a country without carrying out physical attack. On Saturday, The Mirror reported that Russian cyber-attacks have a 10% chance of costing the UK economy at least £4billion every single year. A cyber risk assessment of the UK economy claimed Vladimir Putin's Russia accounts for as much as 80% of all losses from state-sponsored cyber threats, and just one successful attack could cost every Brit £100. The analysis was conducted by by Moody’s insurers on behalf of Labour MP Graeme Downie, who warned Brits were paying a "hidden Putin tax" from Russia's aggression. Calling for a tough response, he said: "A single Russia-linked cyberattack could cost the UK more than £4 billion. That's based on a serious but realistic attack, the sort with roughly a one-in-ten chance of happening in any given year."