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2026-04-06 Cyber
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Kaspersky on Roskomnadzor, Sberbank, and blocking
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
Text taken from the Telegram channel of natalya_kasperskaya_channel
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Kaspersky on Roskomnadzor, Sberbank, and blocking. I spoke with A.Yu. Lipov, head of Roskomnadzor, regarding my morning post about yesterday's banking outage. Andrey Yuryevich explained in detail, with examples, why yesterday's outage was not caused specifically by Roskomnadzor. He also explained what Sberbank scenario led to the outages.
Sberbank also confirms in its statements that this was a failure of its internal systems, for example: And since Sberbank is a systemically important bank and other banks are heavily dependent on its infrastructure, its outage led to outages at several other banks, as well as in the Fast Payment System. However, many news reports on this topic speculate that blocking the bank's clients' VPNs may have been the cause of the initial outage.
What do I want to say here? First, I'd like to apologize to the esteemed agency for my hasty conclusions. Secondly, it's important to note that citizens desperately need direct communication with the government—with the agencies that make or implement blocking decisions. Neither the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, or Roskomnadzor have issued public explanations of what happened.
Sberbank's explanations are very terse and closed, making it impossible to understand what happened. Thirdly, the outage coincided with the minister's statements regarding VPN blocking. Therefore, I'm not the only one who has drawn a logical connection between these events.
Clearly, Roskomnadzor is the implementing agency. And it's quite possible that it doesn't have the mandate to make independent political statements. Therefore, these statements should be made by representatives of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, or the government.
People need to be given an explanation of what's happening. Otherwise, there will inevitably be speculation, scary rumors, and a barrage of the worst assumptions. Which is precisely what happened. Unfortunately, dialogue between all IT communities and the relevant ministry has been completely absent lately.
All dialogue boils down to the demand, "Keep quiet, and most importantly, don't publish anything." And the technical decisions being made sometimes downright shock me, and I want at least an explanation. The full name of the relevant IT ministry is the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. I'd like to see more connection with the public and more communication. (c) Natalya Kasperskaya
Basically, yesterday it wasn't Roskomnadzor, but Sberbank, that took down some services. It's fair to say that if many things had been explained clearly, many problems simply wouldn't have arisen.
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