MoscowA distributed denial-of-service attack froze Wildberries seller payments.
Small sellers across Russia and Central Asia bore the cash-flow hit.
The delay came from Wildberries’ own defensive lockdown of its withdrawal systems, not the attack itself.
No group has yet claimed responsibility, though pro-Ukrainian hackers have hit Russian platforms before.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record leans critical
- quantifies seller impact (20B rubles unpaid, 95.6% no payment); links DDoS to Ukraine military intelligence cyberattack from August
Sources: The Record