Russias Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights after alleged cyberattack by proUkraine hackers

pAeroflot Russias largest airline reported a massive malfunction in its information system on July 28 forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Moscow after an alleged cyberattackppThere has been a failure in the airlines information systems Service disruptions are possible the Russian flag carrier said on Telegram without clarifying the cause of the disruptionsppA proUkrainian hacker group named Silent Crow has claimed responsibility for a largescale attack on Aeroflots IT infrastructure allegedly conducted in cooperation with the Belarusian opposition hacktivist group the Cyber Partisans BYppFor 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 channelppThe hacker group claimed to have completely destroyed the companys IT infrastructure including 7000 physical and virtual servers and gained access to 20 terabytes of datappThe Kyiv Independent could not verify the claimsppAeroflot announced that nearly 50 flights to and from Moscows Sheremetyevo airport including connections to Astrakhan Grozny Kaliningrad Minsk Yerevan and elsewhere were canceled due to the malfunctionppAt present a team of specialists is working to minimize the risks to the flight operation schedule and to restore normal service operations as quickly as possible the company saidppRossiya and Pobeda airlines which are part of the same group as Aeroflot have not reported any disruptionsppSilent Crow has claimed responsibility for several hacking attacks in the past including the one targeting Russias state cadastre and cartography agency in JanuaryppKyiv has not commented on the latest hack Both Russia and Ukraine have widely used cyberattacks to target government institutions and key businesses during the fullscale warppSenior News EditorppMartin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czechlanguage version of Ukraïner Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno Czechia holding a bachelors degree in security studies and history and a masters degree in conflict and democracy studiesppKaja Kallas the EUs top diplomat arrived in Kyiv on Oct 13 for discussions with the Ukrainian officials on financial and military supportppThe latest news about Russias war against UkraineppThe topic of Tomahawks is of extreme concern Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Oct 12 Just imagine a longrange missile is launched and is flying and we know that it could be nuclearppThe I Want to Live project estimated that roughly one in four Belarusian citizens fighting for Russia has diedppThe alliance said that the routine drills are not linked to any current world events and are designed to maintain readiness and ensure transparency regarding NATOs nuclear postureppppThe strike reportedly occurred around midnight marking the second attack on the facility in a week the previous one took place on Oct 6 according to the Crimean Wind Telegram channelppSouth Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyuback said Pyongyang has received various technologies but it remains unclear whether it was able to test launch a submarinelaunched ballistic missile SLBMppSpeaking to journalists during his flight to Israel on Oct 12 US President Donald Trump declared that the war in Gaza had ended and the situation in the Middle East would now normalizeppBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview on Oct 12 that he thinks Ukraine could cease to exist as a state unless President Volodymyr Zelensky urgently begins peace talksppUS President Donald Trump said on Oct 12 that he is prepared to send longrange Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine but said he plans to first discuss the matter with Russian President Vladimir PutinppUS President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Oct 12 calling for the reinstatement of the investigation into the 2019 impeachment proceedings against himppThe changes published on Oct 12 allow refineries to keep receiving government payments even if wholesale prices for gasoline and diesel exceed the thresholds set under existing rules ppPresident Volodymyr Zelensky told Fox News he sees hope that US President Donald Trump can use the same pressure tactics he applied in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to push Russia toward peace in Ukraineppp