Hackers promise “the total destruction of the IT infrastructure” of Aeroflot, Russian airline

The list lengthens. In addition, no sign of return to normal.

On its official Telegram canal, the airline Aeroflot foams the list of delayed flights or canceled on Monday July 28, 2025.

Many correspondence cannot be made. Consequently, the passengers of the flights canceled from Cheremetievo, in the suburbs of Moscow, are asked to recover their luggage and leave the airport.

You must avoid any congestion, the airline is experiencing an unprecedented computer failure.

Over the day, Russian fears are confirmed: it is not a simple technical failure but a cyber attack. Therefore, The information hackers promise “the total destruction is quickly confirmed by the public prosecutor’s office which announces in the wake the opening of an. Similarly, investigation for “Illegitimate access” to information systems.

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The operation is quickly claimed by a group of Ukrainian hackers, their name: Silent Crow.

A collaboration of Ukrainian hackers promise “the total destruction and Belarusian hackers

Silent crows. Here is the name of the group which would have managed to paralyze a large part of the activities. of the most important airline in Russia.

Silent. this is the word, these cyberpirates ensure that they have prepared the attack for more than a year and declare that they have collaborated with another group of Belarusian hackers.

On their telegram canal. they claim to have been able to access the entire AEROFLOT IT infrastructure, and promise ” the compromise and total destruction of the internal IT infrastructure of Aeroflot ». The volume of supposedly hacked information is colossal: 7,000 servers, physical and virtual, 12 TB of databases.

Difficult to judge the real magnitude of the attack. the figures put forward by Silent Crow have not been verified independently, but the Kremlin already judges the incident “Quite alarming ».

The start of a long -term hackers promise “the total destruction attack?

Aeroflot ensures working in cooperation with the competent authorities for ” eliminate the consequences of the incident. »

At the time of writing this article on July 28. 2025 at the end of the afternoon, the Russian company has 54 round-trip flights, or 108 individual flights canceled. But Aeroflot ensures that the other 206 other flights among the 260s scheduled for the day should be insured.

For its part, the Ukrainian group Silent Crow does not seem to be in the final stage of their operation. They promise to publish part of the data stolen from the Russian airline soon.

This is not the first time that the Silent Crow group has been talked about in 2025. In January already. the group was suspected of being in the maneuver of a cyber attack targeting a Russian telecom company. The group had never been distinguished in an attack of this hackers promise “the total destruction magnitude.

A bit of a fan of fanfaons, the Ukrainian pirates deliver a message to the Russian authorities: “At the destination (…) of the so -called” cyber -denseurs “you are unable to protect your key infrastructure. »»

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