Overview

• Hackers from Silent Crow and Cyberpartisans BY claimed a year-long infiltration that destroyed roughly 7,000 servers and commandeered senior managers’ computers.
• The attack forced Aeroflot to cancel over fifty flights at Sheremetyevo Airport, disrupting domestic services and canceling select routes to Minsk and Yerevan.
• Aeroflot has dispatched IT specialists to restore its network and is offering refunds or rebooking options valid for ten days to affected passengers.
• Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed the outage resulted from a cyberattack and launched a criminal investigation into the breach.
• Hackers have escalated their threat by vowing to publish millions of passenger records if their demands are not met.