In the middle of the ongoing war in Russia-Ukraine, a recent cyber attack on the Russian national flagship Aeroflot on Monday forced an airline to cancel more than 100 flights and postpone others, reported AP and quoted Russian prosecutors.
The report added that the Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and the Belarusian activist group of the hacker group Belarus Cyber-Partisans demanded responsibility for a cyber attack.
What we know so far:
According to several pictures that appear on the social media, hundreds of delayed passengers were overcrowded by the Moscow airport Shemetyevo, where Aeroflot is located. On Monday, not only Aeroflot, a mass outage into Aeroflot computer systems, even disrupted flights operated by subsidiaries Aeroflot, Rossiya and Pobeda.
Although most of the affected flights were domestic, several international flights to Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan were canceled.
On Monday, he issued a statement on Monday and warned the passengers that the company’s information technology system had unspecified problems and that disturbances could follow.
Later, the Russian prosecutor’s office confirmed a cyber attack that led the outage. Moscow also initiated criminal investigations.
When the situation escalated the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, he described the reports of a cyber attack “quite alarming. He added, as the AP quotes,” the threat of hackers is a threat that remains for all large companies providing services to the general public. “
The Ukrainian Hacker Group Silent Crow claimed that it was approaching Aeroflot’s business network for a year, copying customer and internal data, including telephone calls, data from their own supervision and other captured communications.
“All these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed and will be able to require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,” he wrote on the Tichá Crow on the telegram.
In addition, the Silent Crow group also shared screen images that seemed to show Aeroflot’s internal IT systems, and indicated that the silent crow could start sharing the data that has entertained in the coming days.
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