Overview

• Aeroflot reported that 216 of 233 return flights from Moscow were on time by early July 29 after selective cancellations at Sheremetyevo airport.
• Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed a hacker attack caused the system failure and opened a criminal case to determine the breach’s origin and impact.
• Hacktivist groups Silent Crow and Cyberpartisans BY claimed a year-long operation that destroyed about 7,000 servers and extracted passenger and employee data, though their assertions remain unverified.
• The airline is offering affected travelers refunds or rebooking options within ten days while specialists work to complete the IT recovery.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the cyber threat “quite alarming,” highlighting growing cybersecurity risks linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.