Overview

• Aeroflot reports that 93% of its scheduled flights from Moscow are now operating as planned after canceling more than 50 domestic and regional routes.
• Russia’s Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the outage resulted from a cyberattack and has opened a criminal investigation into the incident.
• Hacktivist groups Silent Crow and Belarusian Cyber Partisans BY say they infiltrated Aeroflot’s network for a year, destroyed about 7,000 servers and commandeered employee computers.
• The hackers have threatened to publish passenger personal data they claim to have exfiltrated, raising serious privacy and security concerns.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the breach “quite alarming” and warned that digital attacks remain a persistent risk for large service providers.