Great Greetings to the Special Services of the Russian Federation: How Belarusian Hackers attacked and "laid" "Aeroflot"

The largest airline of the Russian Federation "Aeroflot" made a large -scale hacker attack, which caused complete paralysis of critically important infrastructure: tens of flights were canceled, some of the services are not working, internal systems are destroyed or disrupted. The responsibility for the operation was publicly taken over by hacker groups of Silent Crow and cyberpartisans by.

In their statement, they reported that they had entered the company network in July 2024 and were inside continuously for almost a year. During this time, they studied the internal structure of digital services, removed data, analyzed the architecture of the network, accumulated access-and at the same time went unnoticed for the security service and IT department. According to the hackers themselves, all corporate infrastructure came under their control.

They were given full access to personal computers of management, mail servers, personnel management systems, telephone conversations, video surveillance cameras, flight history base and internal documentation. As a result of the attack, approximately 7,000 physical and virtual servers were completely destroyed. They estimate the total volume of stolen or damaged data in 12-22 terabytes. As a result, at least 56 flights, both domestic and international, including Yerevan, Minsk, Chelyabinsk, St.

Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and other cities, were abolished. People were asked to return tickets online, but the digital services did not work. Airports at airports were also paralyzed. Despite the scale of the attack, some of the flights were still made. This may be explained by the fact that some key services were physically separated from the main network, or by the fact that hackers left part of the infrastructure intact, so as not to cause a complete transportation collapse.

In their public address, hackers explicitly stated that this attack was addressed to Russian special services and cyber defense workers. According to them, it was a "message" that had to demonstrate the complete vulnerability of the Russian security system. They emphasized that they were in the system all year long, and it went unnoticed. The stock market reacted instantly: the Aeroflot shares were almost 4%on the Moscow Exchange.