Ukrainian's have found a novel way of locating members of Russia's invading army – by taking advantage of their lust for sex.
According to reports in the FT, hackers are pretending to be lusty Russian and Ukrainian women on social media website Facebook or on local Russian social sites.
The group – known only as Hackyourmom – then managed to entice to horny soldiers who they started "flirting" with into giving up their locations.
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And it work so well that the Ukrainian army managed to find them and blow up their bases throughout the areas of Ukraine which they have occupied.
One of the members of the group, Nikita Knysh said: “The Russians, they always want to f**k.
“They send a lot of s**t to 'girls' to prove that they are warriors.”
“(Having seen on the news that his intel let to a base being targetted) my first thought was — I am effective, I can help my country.
“Then, I realised, I want more of this — I want to find more bases, again and again. For me, this felt like combat.
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“With no money, with no brilliant software, and even no brilliant hacks — you can use fraudsters, the dark web against your enemy.
“Right now, Russian laws don’t matter — what we have got is the experience of being in the first cyber war.”
Alongside a team, he claims that they wrote a special code to help track down the soldiers from the information they were given.
It was based on a “machine-learning” code, which separated normal “traffic” to that of military movements.
It was then made available to Ukrainian officials via a “public portal”, the FT adds.
Although it is unclear which bases Knysh and the 30-strong team has helped Ukraine's army identify, officials have distanced themselves from giving any credit to the hackers, local reports state.
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