One of the things about the war in Ukraine is that cyber warfare has become a new front in the war. And this is illustrated by the fact that Russian airline Aeroflot has apparently been pwned by two groups of hackers. Specifically Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans. According to AP, this has led to the following:
A cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company’s computer systems on Monday, Russia’s prosecutor’s office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others.
This was as of Monday. I have to assume that this is still the case today. Here’s where it gets interesting. The groups behind this claim to have been in the network for a year:
Silent Crow claimed it had accessed Aeroflot’s corporate network for a year, copying customer and internal data, including audio recordings of phone calls, data from the company’s own surveillance on employees and other intercepted communications.
“All of these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed and restoring them will possibly require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,” the channel purporting to be the Silent Crow group wrote on Telegram. There was no way to independently verify its claims.
The same channel also shared screenshots that appeared to show Aeroflot’s internal IT systems, and insinuated that Silent Crow could begin sharing the data it had seized in the coming days.
“The personal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip — albeit without luggage and to the same destination,” it said.
The Belarus Cyber-Partisans told The Associated Press that they had hoped to “deliver a crushing blow.” The group has previously claimed responsibility for a number of cyberattacks, and said in April 2024 that they had been able to infiltrate the network of Belarus’ main KGB security agency.
If all of this is true, this is really embarrassing for Russia who is a nation that’s usually associated with attacks like this. The fact that they got pwned on this scale shows that nobody is immune from cyberattacks. Thus this is another object lesson for organizations to make sure that they do everything possible to not be the next victim.
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Russian Airline Aeroflot Pwned Leading To The Cancellation Of Flights
One of the things about the war in Ukraine is that cyber warfare has become a new front in the war. And this is illustrated by the fact that Russian airline Aeroflot has apparently been pwned by two groups of hackers. Specifically Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans. According to AP, this has led to the following:
A cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company’s computer systems on Monday, Russia’s prosecutor’s office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others.
This was as of Monday. I have to assume that this is still the case today. Here’s where it gets interesting. The groups behind this claim to have been in the network for a year:
Silent Crow claimed it had accessed Aeroflot’s corporate network for a year, copying customer and internal data, including audio recordings of phone calls, data from the company’s own surveillance on employees and other intercepted communications.
“All of these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed and restoring them will possibly require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,” the channel purporting to be the Silent Crow group wrote on Telegram. There was no way to independently verify its claims.
The same channel also shared screenshots that appeared to show Aeroflot’s internal IT systems, and insinuated that Silent Crow could begin sharing the data it had seized in the coming days.
“The personal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip — albeit without luggage and to the same destination,” it said.
The Belarus Cyber-Partisans told The Associated Press that they had hoped to “deliver a crushing blow.” The group has previously claimed responsibility for a number of cyberattacks, and said in April 2024 that they had been able to infiltrate the network of Belarus’ main KGB security agency.
If all of this is true, this is really embarrassing for Russia who is a nation that’s usually associated with attacks like this. The fact that they got pwned on this scale shows that nobody is immune from cyberattacks. Thus this is another object lesson for organizations to make sure that they do everything possible to not be the next victim.
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