Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram
Russia's attempts to restrict the use of virtual private networks amid a clampdown on the Telegram messaging platform triggered …
Telegram was banned in Russia — yet 50M+ Russians still use it daily via VPNs. The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking attempts just triggered a massive banking failure — cash briefly became the only payment method nationwide.
Roskomnadzor demanded that Russian media remove reports linking a major banking outage on April 3 to government internet blocking measures. Articles from Forbes and the Mash Telegram channel disappeared after they cited technical overload of Roskomnadzor's filtering systems as
🇷🇺Russia tried to crack down on VPNs. Instead they crashed their own banking system. Sberbank, T-Bank, VTB all went down. ATMs stopped working. Lines at gas stations. Cash only, nationwide. 50 million Russians still use Telegram daily through VPNs despite it being banned. [image]