Ukraine strikes Russia's largest online marketplace Wildberries in two-pronged campaign
Ukrainian hackers have disrupted the payment and customer-service systems of Russia's largest online marketplace, Wildberries, Ukraine's military intelligence agency HUR reports.
Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has announced that Ukrainian hackers succeeded in disrupting operations at Wildberries, Russia's largest online marketplace, causing outages in both its payment system and customer-service functions.
This cyberattack is not the first action taken against the company. Previous reports indicated that Wildberries warehouses had been set on fire, meaning the platform is now facing a two-track campaign combining physical sabotage with cyber intrusions.
Wildberries is considered Russia's largest e-commerce platform, and has reportedly been used to move drone components, though the source provides no further detail on this claim.
HUR has not released technical details on how the disruption was carried out, nor specified how long the payment and customer-service systems remained affected. The agency did, however, confirm that both systems were hit by the attack.
The operation fits into a broader pattern of Ukrainian efforts targeting Russian economic and logistics infrastructure during the war. As a major commerce platform with alleged links to logistics chains, Wildberries represents a significant target for such campaigns.
