Russia’s flag carrier, the aeroflot, faced a cyber attack, resulting in over 60 flights canceled and severe delays on additional flights.
Although official sources from Russia, such as General prosecutor officeThe specific danger did not credits the attacks for groups or even the original, the responsibility was taken by Ukrainian and Belarusian havocy collective collective ‘Silent Crow’ and ‘by Cyberpartis’.
The latter is known for previous attacks on the state -owned railway company Belarusi Railway, which was actively supported the movement of Russian military equipment in Ukraine at that time.
According to announcements made On X And on the wireHackers claimed to infiltrate the IT infrastructure of the aeroflot for more than a year, mapped it extensively to indicate all valuable resources, and then “destroyed” it.
In particular, two groups claim that 122 hypervisers, 43 zvirt virtue installations, around 100 ILO interfaces used for server management and four proxmox clusters are claimed to obtain access to the cluster.
During his alleged access to those systems, he says he ended all databases from the flying history and staff workstation (including top officials), a wire -to -phone call recording from the wirepings server, and a wiretapping server with a personnel monitoring system.
The day of action, the hecticians have claimed that the 12TB database, 8TB Windows shares and corporate emails have wiped out 7,000 physical and virtual servers hosting 2TBs.
Finally, the hackers soon threatened to publish all the stolen data, warning that it would highlight every dandruff that was swept away with the aeroflot.
Source: Silent Crow | Wire
Although the company has not confirmed any data destruction or agreement, its operational status reflects serious technical problems that indicate a cyber attack.
With a fleet of 171 aircraft, with 33,500 employees and 104 destinations, the aeroflot is Russia’s largest airline, in which the government has a 74% stake in it. The company took over 55 million passengers last year, accounted for more than 42% of the country’s market share.
Flight cancellation and delays are reportedly allegedly continuing today, while some scheduled flights will be done without the support of computer systems.
The attack is not the first time that Ukrainian has claimed to have a successful agreement in Russia’s air transport sector.
In November 2023, Ukraine’s intelligence service under the Ministry of Defense claimed that he had hacked Russia’s federal air transport agency, ‘Rosaviotsia’. In the attack, hackers leaked data showing the decay situation due to lack of international restrictions and spare parts.
Include emerging hazards in real time – before they affect your business.
Learn how cloud detection and response (CDR) gives security teams the required edge in this practical, no-nonsense guide.
