In Rostov-on-Don, one local internet provider has started introducing “whitelists” for home internet, the Code Durova project reported, citing users.
“When I use my home internet, Telegram and any other sites that are not on these whitelists do not work. I tried turning on a VPN, but it does not help, the sites simply do not open, while our Russian services work,” one of the interviewees said.
Novaya-Europe checked reports of internet disruptions over the past 24 hours in Krasnodar Krai, Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk regions, as well as Tatarstan. In those regions, providers have not yet started testing “whitelists,” so the case in Rostov-on-Don can be described as the first in Russia.
An automated response from one of the operators told journalists that there are currently “technical problems related to external impact on the provider’s infrastructure.”
In a separate message, the provider said that unspecified “massive DDoS attacks” had been recorded in the region, affecting a number of operators and causing “disruptions” and “slowdowns of internet services.”
As Verstka writes, the operator in question is Timer. The company recently reported an attack by the Kimwolf botnet, the dismantling of which was announced by the authorities of the United States, Canada, and Germany.