Hackers broke into the Kyiv Independent’s systems and used the outlet’s own newsletter to tell readers that Ukraine’s president had fired a nuclear warhead at Kyiv. The English-language Ukrainian newsroom said on November 4 that the attackers got into its website’s content management system and one of the services it uses to send newsletters. It calls the attack a suspected Russian operation.
Three days earlier, Ukraine’s Air Alert app pushed fake radiation, chemical and street-fighting warnings to users in Kyiv (our report). Two different systems, the same kind of message, both times through a channel people trust.
Source: Privacy Affairs · 2026-11-04