Ukrainian Hackers Take Credit For Massive Cyberattack On Russia’s Aeroflot
Russia’s prosecutor said that on Monday, the company has caused a mass deduction to computer systems and forced its airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others.
Ukrainian Hacker Group Silent Crow and Belarus Hacker activist group Belarus Cyber PartizansBelarus opposing the president’s rule Alexander LukashenkoHe claimed the responsibility of the cyber attack.
It is one of the most destructive cyber attacks that have hit Russia since the beginning of the country’s full -scale Ukrainian invasion in February 2022. Previous attacks have targeted Russian government websites and other major Russian companies-taking into account the Russian railways of the state-but normal services continued within hours.
The images shared on social media showed hundreds of delayed passengers circulating Moscow’s Shemetyevo Airport, where Aeroflot is based. The deduction also broke the flights of Aeroflot by Rossiya and Pobeda.
Although most of the affected flights were indigenous, interruptions also led to cancellation for some international flights. BelarusArmenia and Uzbekistan.
In a statement published in an early Monday, Aeroflot warned passengers that the company’s information technology system has unquestionable difficulties and that the disruptions could follow.
The Russian Prosecutor’s Office later confirmed that a cyber attack caused interruption and opened a criminal investigation.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the reports of the cyber attack as “very worrying ve and said that“ the threat of hacker is a threat to all major companies serving the general public ”.
For a year, Silent Crow claimed that Aeroflot has reached its corporate network, and the sound recordings of phone calls have copied the company’s own supervision and other intersecting communications on employees.
“All of these resources are inaccessible or destroyed, and restoring them will probably require tens of millions of dollars. Damage is strategic. There was no way to independently verify their claims.
The same channel also shared the screenshot of Aeroflot’s internal IT systems and implied that Silent Crow could begin to share the data seized in the coming days.
“With Aeroflot, the personal data of all the Russians flying so far is not a luggage and a journey to the same goal,” he said.
Belarus said that they hoped to “give an overwhelming blow” to the Cyber Partisans Associated Press. The group previously assumed the responsibility of a series of cyber attacks and said that in April 2024, Belarus was able to infiltrate the main KGB Security Agency network.
Burcu This is one of the most painful attacks in terms of a very large -scale attacks and results, Yul said Group Coordinator Yuliana Shametavets. He said that the group had prepared the attack for several months and could penetrate the Aeroflot network by taking advantage of various security deficits.
Belarus is a close ally of Russia. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for more than 30 years and trusts his support for Russian subsidies and support, allowed Russia to use his country’s territory to start a full -scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Russia has airports mass delays that face over and over again During the summer as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks, with flights between security concerns.
