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Major outage cripples Russian banking apps and metro payments nationwide

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STIX ID: report--3d536159-1aeb-5271-9ea8-af048676154d

Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2026-04-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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A large-scale outage on April 3 caused widespread disruption to Russian banking apps, card payments, ATM withdrawals and metro payment turnstiles, affecting major banks and millions of customers; reports attribute the incident to a technical failure at a bank and suggest it may have been exacerbated by recent government measures to curb VPN use, while authorities sought to suppress coverage linking the outage to VPN restrictions.

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