Overview

• Aeroflot canceled 42 flights at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after its computer systems failed on July 28.
• Hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans said they spent a year inside Aeroflot’s network before destroying 7,000 servers.
• The attackers say they extracted 20 terabytes of data and threatened to release personal information belonging to passengers.
• Aeroflot has deployed specialist teams to contain the breach and restore normal operations as swiftly as possible.
• This operation follows recent cyber campaigns such as the breach of Belarus’s KGB and the Europol-led takedown of the pro-Russian NoName057 group, underscoring critical infrastructure vulnerabilities.