Russian airline Aeroflot was forced to cancel more than 50 return flights today, causing turbulence on airline flights in the world’s largest country, as two pro -Turkish groups claimed to have caused a devastating cyberattack.
She said the situation was alarming and Russian MPs described it as a warning of alarm in Russia. Prosecutors confirmed that the disruption to the National Airman was caused by cyberattack and began criminal investigation.
Aeroflot did not mention how much time it would take to solve the problems, but the departures at Seremetievo Airport became red as flights were canceled at a time when many Russians were vacationing.
The company’s shares decreased by 3.9% to 15:33 GMT, under the wider market, which was 1.3% lower.
An announcement supposed to come from a hacker group called Silent Crow said it had been carrying out the operation with Belarus Cyberpartisans, a self -proclaimed hacker group opposed to President Alexander Lucashenko and says he wants to release Belarus from the dictatorship.
“Glory to Ukraine! Long live Belarus! ” The announcement said on behalf of Silent Crow.
Silent Crow has previously assumed responsibility for attacks this year in a Russian real estate database, a state -owned telecommunications company, a large insurance company, in the Department of Informatics of the Moscow government and the Russian office of the South Korean car industry. Some of them led to large data leaks.
“The information we read publicly is quite alarming. The hacker threat is a threat that remains for all major companies that provide services to the population, “the Kremlin spokesman said.
The announcements by Silent Crow and Belarus Cyberpartisans report that cyberattack was the result of a one -year business that had penetrated Aeroflot deeply, destroyed 7,000 servers and acquired employees’ personal computers, including senior executives.
They published screenshots from file lists supposed to come from the interior of Aeroflot’s network and threatened that they will soon begin publishing “the personal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot”, as well as sub -closures and email conversations.
Aeroflot announced that it had canceled 54 return flights, but planned to make the remaining 206 of the 260s scheduled for Monday.
“Experts are currently working to minimize impact on the flight program and restoring the normal operation of services,” Aeroflot said.
Despite Western sanctions in Russia, which have drastically restricted travel and routes, Aeroflot remains among the top 20 airlines worldwide in number of passengers, who reached 55.3 million last year, according to its website.
