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Ukraine says public air raid alert app sent false alerts after being hacked · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's public air raid alert system was compromised late Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night by a cyber attack, causing the country's official mobile
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  Speaker 1: warning application to transmit false alerts threatening nuclear radiation, chemical attacks,
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  Speaker 1: and imminent street combat. The intrusion sent erroneous emergency notifications
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  Speaker 1: to millions of lock screens across Kyiv and multiple regions,
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  Speaker 1: including automated messages written in Russian that claimed Russia's hypersonic
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  Speaker 1: Orshnik missile had been launched. The Ukrainian Air Force issued
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  Speaker 1: an immediate clarification via its official communications channels, advising citizens
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  Speaker 1: to ignore the panic-inducing notifications and confirming that no radiation
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  Speaker 1: or chemical threats existed. Regional governors across Ukraine, including in
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  Speaker 1: Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia oblasts, warned residents that the compromised application
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  Speaker 1: contained suspicious external links, instructing users not to interact with
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  Speaker 1: embedded URLs to prevent secondary phishing or malware infections. Technical
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  Speaker 1: teams temporarily disabled the application to isolate the compromise while
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  Speaker 1: physical street sirens and secondary alert networks maintained core operational coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications, Spravdy, attributed the cyber intrusion
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  Speaker 1: to hostile Russian actors, characterizing the attack as a deliberate
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  Speaker 1: attempt to incite domestic panic and undermine public confidence in
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  Speaker 1: national early warning infrastructure. The breach impacted the widely used
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  Speaker 1: Air Alert application, jointly developed by the Ministry of Digital
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  Speaker 1: Transformation and private technology firm Ajax Systems. which serves as
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  Speaker 1: the primary real-time warning mechanism for incoming missile and drone
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  Speaker 1: strikes across the country. In a parallel development early Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that its own official
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  Speaker 1: mobile alert application had suffered a massive cyberattack, causing fake
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  Speaker 1: emergency information to be broadcast to Russian users. Russian state
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  Speaker 1: media confirmed that technical units were working to remediate the
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  Speaker 1: system while asserting that primary SIREN networks remained unaffected. The
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  Speaker 1: mutual cyber disruptions coincide with heightened operational readiness as localized
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  Speaker 1: regional ceasefires expire across southern Ukraine.