Although the Internet is not an illegal place, as a virtual world, people with strong hacking capabilities can always establish one after another outside the law on the Internet. What adult website do you think Little Ray is going to write? No, this time I want to talk to you about Rutracker, a Russian cracking resource website.
If you are often wandering the Internet and keen to download various resources, you may have heard of the Site of Rutracker, although the reputation is not as good as pirate bay, but if you are looking for resources that can not be found on other websites, then trying your luck in Rutracker will also have a good harvest.
Rutracker once became the home of many Internet liberals, with up to 13 million registered users, thanks to Russia's powerful civil hacking group, Rutracker also has a large number of pirated and cracked resources to share, 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 conditions of streaming platforms such as Netflix, the Russian side put Rutracker on the ban list and began to hunt down a group of Russian hackers related to the website, the popular website announced the transfer of servers, and many active cracking teams began to suspend activities to escape the official pursuit.
Interestingly, even though the Russian civilian hacking group ceased to be active, Rutracker did not shut down, relying on hacking teams from other countries, Rutracker still maintained some resource updates. Of course, today's Rutracker is far less than the golden age of the previous founding, and the number of resource updates has declined significantly.
Just a few years later, friends who have recently paid attention to international news should know that the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out, and the impact of the war after the outbreak was that a number of streaming media and game platforms from Netflix to EPIC announced that they would stop operating in Russia. Subsequently, a message said that Russia had released the address of the Rutracker main station that had been banned earlier, and lifted the ban on related parties.
This news is tantamount to unshackling the shackles on the feet of Russian hackers, so that this group of hackers who follow the liberal activities of the Internet can attack the city without worries, perhaps the reader is not clear about how explosive the news is, then it is obvious that there is no clear understanding of the concept of Russian hackers
Defenders of Internet liberalism?
From Steam buying games to bilibili and iQiyi watching genuine film and television dramas, these activities should be commonplace for the new generation of Internet users, but for the "old networms" who have been active on the Internet before 2010, the earliest concept of games and overseas film and television dramas has started from BT seeds.
At that time, there was not much awareness of genuineness on the Chinese Internet, and even Steam did not have the concept of China at that time, and the only way to buy genuine games was to buy genuine boxed discs or spend high prices on Steam's American area and port area to buy games in the outer area, and because there was no server set up in China, the download speed would not be able to run full of bandwidth as it is now.
Moreover, for Chinese netizens at that time, the genuine game of tens of dollars was also an unaffordable expense, so pirated games became the main choice for most single-player players. 3DM, Nomad Starry Sky and other websites, in the past are famous pirated game download sites, some netizens who do not know the truth even think that these sites have the support of hackers behind them, otherwise where did they get so many pirated games?
In fact, whether it is 3DM or Nomad Starry Sky, it is basically a Chinese porter (there are some cracking groups in the follow-up, but they are all later things), and the most work they do is actually to embed the machine-turned Chinese files into the pirated game folder downloaded from the extranet, and then packaged into a "no-install Chinese version" and "green Chinese version". So where do the resources for pirated games themselves come from?
The answer is downloaded on sites like Rutracker, the most famous of which is IGGEMENS, where there are a large number of individual hackers and hacking groups active, and almost every game is cracked and uploaded on the day of release, and almost no game is spared.
In this group of hackers who are keen on cracking games, the largest and largest number of people is russian hackers, many well-known cracking organizations have Russian hackers, they are not only cracking games, from PS to PR, and even Windows and other systems, professional software are almost their targets.
For example, the world's first hacker to crack the Windows XP system came from Russia, which opened the era of pirate systems around the world. At the same time, it is also the crack of Windows XP, which forced Microsoft to change its business thinking, from fighting piracy to giving up fighting piracy, focusing on increasing its market share, and then increasing revenue from other aspects.
Even the top Internet companies such as Microsoft are planted in the hands of Russian hackers, the fate of other companies can be imagined, basically not many companies can go through two rounds under the attention of Russian hackers, Adobe, Blizzard, Ubisoft, and even various security companies have been patronized by Russian hackers, and also left a lot of black history.
After 2000, the Russian side mushroomed like a large number of cracking organizations, they focused on cracking various software, and like to upload software to major websites for free after cracking for users to download. They claim that this is the embodiment of the spirit of the Internet, believing that only "freedom, openness, equality, and sharing" can promote the further development of the Internet.
Therefore, they upload all kinds of software, games, and streaming works to various forums for free, so that all users who can connect to the Internet can freely get what they want, and even users in countries that are banned by the West can also freely use and download various software and streaming works.
Although Xiao Lei does not support piracy, to put it bluntly, it is still our income level that has gone up, so that we can have the confidence to say so. For Internet users in the third world, it is pirated resources that give them low-cost access to the quality of life brought about by the development of the Internet. Moreover, many domestic film and television works that do not have genuine control channels can only be watched through pirated resources now.
With the recovery of the Russian cracking group, we may be able to see a large number of free, high-quality cracking resources appear in major forums.
There are only two types of hackers, ordinary hackers and Russian hackers
Are Russian hackers really that powerful? The information collected by Xiao Lei is indeed so, before the United States accused Russia of interfering in their election, although it was denied by the Russian side, but in the eyes of relevant people, Russian hackers do have the ability to intervene in a country's election.
Some wonder how to intervene? Quite simply, hack into the candidate's computer and server, obtain some evidence of the candidate's illegal profit or politically incorrect speech, and then publish the relevant documents to undermine the confidence of supporters in the candidate, as long as the unfavorable information of some candidates is selectively published, the support rate of the candidate can be manipulated.
For example, the most famous of similar incidents in recent years is the Hillary Clinton incident in the United States, as Hillary Clinton's private email was exposed, the hot US presidential candidate was soon saddled with the name of "traitor", although the subsequent political operation was destroyed, but it was no longer able to participate in the presidential campaign, and could only switch to supporting other presidential candidates.
In addition to manipulating the election, Russian hackers are also good at hacking into the servers of various organizations and companies, including bank servers, and in 2010, the FBI launched an investigation into Russian hacking groups and believed that this group of hackers was related to a Citigroup cyber intrusion case.
According to the FBI, Russian hackers hacked into Citibank's servers and stole tens of millions of dollars from them and left without attracting the attention of Citigroup's security services. Although Citigroup later denied ever having suffered a cyberattack, banks were reluctant to disclose the case in most cases so as not to cast doubt on the bank's security.
More interesting is an invasion of the NASDAQ in 2014, as one of the cores of the US financial system, the importance of nasdaq is self-evident, and because of the large number of online transactions, nasdaq's network defense level may be second only to physical isolation (abbreviation: disconnection).
However, even such a well-guarded server was still compromised, and an alert message alarmed various departments in the United States, and then expert analysis concluded that a hacker successfully hacked into nasdaq servers and obtained the permission of at least one American stock exchange, if not properly handled, it may directly lead to chaos or stagnation of the financial system, resulting in hundreds of billions of losses.
Subsequent investigations into the invasion by relevant US departments have never been able to locate the identity of the hacking organization, and even can only give the conclusion that "it should be a hacking organization in a certain country, and it is most likely a hacking organization in Eastern Europe or Northern Europe." Finally, after several months of investigations without results, the hacking group that invaded nasdaq finally couldn't sit still and voluntarily admitted to the intrusion, although it did not claim to be Russian, but the follow-up investigation found that the main members of this organization should be Russian hackers.
After the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Anonymous, the world's largest hacking group, announced that it would hack Russian websites and servers to help Ukraine. Subsequently, several Websites in Russia were hacked for a short time, but soon returned to normal, and then the official website and server of Anonymous were attacked by the Russian hacking group "Killnet" and hung up their own statements.
With the strength of one country against hackers around the world, it is no wonder that some people say that there are only two kinds of hackers: ordinary hackers and Russian hackers, so when Russian hackers are loosened by the government, what happens next, Xiao Lei is also curious.