The Department of Transportation has asked the Moscow Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service to conduct checks on the fact of the appearance in the Moscow metro fake Wi-Fi network with threats on behalf of the “Islamic State” (the organization is banned in Russia). This was announced by Deputy Mayor Maxim Liksutov, “Interfax».
According to him, working in the metro operator “MaksimaTelekom” conducted a technical audit, the results of which revealed that attempts to hack the network and of the hacking was not but it was “bullying.” He explained that “someone simulated network, similar to the official Wi-Fi Moscow metro».
«The government of Moscow for its part, also sent a statement to the police and the FSB in order for such actions were carried out the necessary checks and the decisions up to the initiation of criminal cases, “- said Liksutov.
Earlier on Thursday that when entering the Wi-Fi in the Moscow subway page opens with threats LIH told LifeNews citing eyewitnesses. The channel has also published a screenshot allegedly opened at the same page with the inscription: “Yesterday – Paris today – Moscow.” According to LifeNews, failure occurred in the evening on November 20 and was recorded “at least several stations Kaluga-Riga line».
The representative of the operator Ilya Grabowski said the company also sent a letter – in the name of its leader Boris Volpe – the Interior Ministry with a request to initiate criminal proceedings “against unidentified persons, who created a fake network,” the agency “Moscow”. He clarified that the statement also appealed to the police department of North-East with the aim of obtaining information for an internal investigation. He did not exclude that the network has been established, a double and a limited number of users can connect to this network.
However, Grabowski said that “MaksimaTelekom” has not received any complaints from users about the threats via Wi -Fi in the subway. “The statement, which appeared today in the media, we can interpret as a provocation, the attack on the causes and which customers can only speculate,” – said a company representative. According to him, Wi-Fi in the Moscow metro is operating normally, there is no failure. “According to the results of the technical audit found no attacks on our server and external unauthorized changes to the content on the site Wi-Fi.ru», – said Grabowski.
In the management of the subway passengers were asked to pay attention to which network they connect , noting that the official name of the service provider – MosMetro_Free.
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