Hacktivists With a Pro-Russian Agenda Increase Membership by 2,400% in DDoSia

‘DDoSia’, a crowd-sourced DDoS (distributed denial of service) project that features over ten thousand people to help conduct offensive attacks on Western organizations, has seen massive 2,400% growth in less than a year with more than 10,000 people contributing to the project. 

There is a pro-Russian hacktivist group called “NoName057(16)” that launched the campaign last summer. It has quickly reached 400 active members and 13,000 users on its Telegram channel since it was launched. 

There are now 10,000 active users on the platform, up from 400 people when the platform was introduced to 10,000 now. It also has 45,000 subscribers on its primary Telegram channel, which is much more than the 13,000 subscribers it had last summer. 

With the growth of Western organizations, more and more individuals are involved in acts of terror against them. There are also better tools for deploying these attacks. For example, binaries are available for all major OS platforms, which makes deployment easier. 

As attackers continue to use DDoSia technology against countries that are critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the DDoSia project by pro-Russian hackers has grown significantly this year. 

As a resu

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