All about the Anonymous Moscow hack and the war in Ukraine: Anonymous hacks a taxi app and creates a giant traffic jam in Moscow!
Moscow is already usually one of the most congested capitals in the world.
In Moscow (Russia), traffic was paralyzed for about forty minutes on Thursday, September 1. The reason for these traffic problems is an attack by Anonymous hackers. The latter have indeed hacked the Yandex Taxi application, Vice reports.
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To impede traffic in the Russian capital, the hackers managed to order all the taxis available in the application to get to the same place, namely Kutuzovsky Prospekt. It is one of the main arteries of the city, an equivalent of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Particularly used, it starts from the Novoarbatsky Bridge located to the west of the Moscow hypercenter and crosses a good part of the west of the capital.
By bringing all the taxis in the application to this avenue, Anonymous caused a major traffic jam, which then reverberated on all the major roads in the west and center of Moscow. An operation that was facilitated by the already usually very dense traffic in the Russian city.
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According to CBS, by the way, in 2021 Moscow was the second city with the most traffic jams in the world, just behind Istanbul (Turkey).
The collective's work has thus focused on hacking the application, which does not usually allow this type of abuse. Since this event, Yandex Taxi has announced that it has improved the algorithms that defend the application against this type of attacks. For its part, Anonymous seems determined to continue its "cyberwar" against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine by the country. Last March, for example, the collective had hacked the feed of hundreds of webcams and surveillance cameras.
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At this start of the school year, plagued by inflation, Jean, a young resident of Minimes, in the Pink City, puts "butter in spinach". He "eats better", even organic, without necessarily paying more. This computer science student has joined the community of users of the brand new Cabashop app. Exclusively based in Toulouse for the moment, it allows individuals to group orders with local merchants and then deliver to each other. "Carpooling" of races in a way, even if Jean made his first three small tours by metro and by VéloToulouse. As a delivery driver – for up to five people - he indicates on the app his route and when he intends to do his shopping. The other "cabashoppers" are added to the order. And he receives a small commission deducted from his receipt. "The operation is similar to that of Blablacar, the payments are secure", explains the one who makes "small savings" while eating "healthier things". Jean also enriches his human relationships, he has a feeling that a "nice community" is sprouting.
And, who knows, he might one day deliver a basket of victuals to Clothilde's office in the city center. This active young woman, who works in agriculture, has just downloaded the app because she realized that the first partner shops – Bio C'bon and Les Délices de Tunis aux Carmes – were precisely the ones where she was already using. "I keep my habits, I get delivered to the office and I don't waste time in the evening," she anticipates. The Toulouse woman has tested quite a few delivery systems and she has often been disappointed with the service. "I like the idea of being delivered by people who do their shopping like me rather than by an underpaid delivery person," she says, while not ruling out the idea of being a delivery person in turn if the opportunity arises.
If it excites young people, this participatory and eco-friendly solution for shopping is not frankly new. It is even with a whiff of nostalgia that Yohann Marconato created Cabashop with two of his engineer friends. He wanted to "revive the spirit" that reigned in his parents' family butcher shop in Tournefeuille. "People left little words on the till to find out if someone could deliver them, I even happened to do it myself on my little bike, for three francs six sous, real francs at the time," he says. And needless to say, the thirty-something is all for the cause of small traders, who have neither the time nor the logistics to set up their own delivery service.
Cabashop, which is gaining momentum in the 1Kubator incubator, is making its ranges in the center of Toulouse. But the app, which is paid for by a commission on orders, also wants to seduce company employees, export to the suburbs – and first of all to Tournefeuille, of course - and then gradually conquer Occitania and the whole of France.
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