According to the Minister of Digital Development of the region, Sergei Chetverikov, hackers are distributing fake alerts.

“A number of electronic services of the government of the Belgorod region were attacked, including an electronic document management service, in which a fake emergency alert was distributed allegedly on behalf of the governor,” he wrote on his VKontakte page.

The minister urged to trust only verified sources of information.

It was previously reported that hackers carried out more than 600 million DDoS attacks on the State Services portal in 2023.