Martin Fornusek reports:
Aeroflot, Russia’s largest airline, reported a massive malfunction in its information system on July 28, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Moscow.
“There has been a failure in the airline’s information systems. Service disruptions are possible,” the Russian flag carrier said on Telegram without clarifying the cause of the disruptions.
A hacker group named Silent Crow has claimed responsibility for a large-scale attack on Aeroflot’s IT infrastructure, allegedly conducted in cooperation with the Belarusian opposition hacktivist group, the Cyber Partisans BY.
“For a year, we were inside their corporate network, methodically developing access, going deep into the very core of the infrastructure,” the hackers claimed on their Telegram channel.
Read more at The Kyiv Independent.