Tass: Rostelecom says an unspecified external impact has damaged a Russian underwater cable in the Baltic Sea, but there was no impact on subscribers
Bloomberg :
After knocking out the internet in Kherson, a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city, Russian forces reinstated service but rerouted it through Russia's Rostelecom
Jonathan Greig / The Record :
Roskomnadzor says it is blocking Facebook in Russia, citing 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020
Russia is being cut off from the rest of the online world … France 24 : Russia blocks Facebook over ‘discrimination’ of state media Brittany Bernstein / National Review : Kremlin Blocks Access to Face...
Backbone internet provider Cogent cuts ties with Russian clients, including state-owned telecom Rostelecom, so it can't be used for propaganda or cyberattacks
Advocates of an open, globally connected Internet long have worried that a major country or region would break away …
Russian telecom giant Rostelecom says it sinkholed part of the Meris DDoS botnet, the world's largest; researchers say the botnet is tied to Windows malware
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : Tweets: @campuscodi Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Scoop: Rostelecom said it sinkholed part of Meris, the DDoS botnet that broke DDoS records twice this summer...
Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world's largest CDNs and cloud hosts was redirected through Russia's telco Rostelecom in likely BGP hijacking attacks
Rostelecom involved in BGP hijacking incident this week impacting more than 200 CDNs and cloud providers.