Hackers crash Aeroflot systems, cancel 50 flights from Moscow
This morning, Russia’s Aeroflot airline canceled approximately 50 flights due to a “disruption in its information systems,” with hacker groups Silent Crow and Belarusian Cyber Partisans claiming responsibility for the attack, according to statements from Aeroflot and Silent Crow.
Flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport to Minsk, Yerevan, Yekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, and other cities were canceled.
Aeroflot stated that passengers could only exchange tickets or request refunds through its call center and urged those affected by cancellations to leave Sheremetyevo airport.
According to the Telegram channel Baza, a traffic jam formed near the airport, with hundreds of passengers from canceled flights stranded in Moscow.
Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans BY reported conducting a “long-term and large-scale operation” that fully compromised and destroyed Aeroflot’s internal IT infrastructure. The hackers claimed they had been preparing the cyberattack for a year.
They stated they destroyed thousands of the airline’s servers, “compromised all critical corporate systems,” and gained control over the personal computers of company management.
“All these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed, and recovery may require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,” Silent Crow’s statement read.
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