Between March 11 and 18, cyber experts of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and activists of the “BO Team” group carried out new large-scale cyber attacks on state and private structures of Russia.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the State Government.
“Not only the Russian state, but also private structures that pay taxes and finance the war against Ukraine were attacked,” the message said.
As reported by the State Government, during the week from March 11 to 18, the resources of PJSC “Rostelecom” were hacked – communications equipment of the Transbaikal and Krasnoyarsk regions of the Russian Federation were disabled; Access to the electronic document management system “Government of the Belgorod Region” was obtained, fake mails were sent to 12 thousand local officials; Communications equipment of “Belznak” LLC was hacked and disabled; The information resources of the “municipal budget institution of the Starooskol city multi-industrial production association” were attacked and destroyed; The infrastructure of JSC “Tommoloko” was attacked and destroyed.
In addition, the server infrastructure was compromised and destroyed, backup copies of the hosting provider 1Gb.ru and the tens of thousands of websites it serves, and more than 40 Mikrotik network devices were seized at the “City Motor Vehicle Control Center” in Novosibirsk. disabled.
GUR noted that the damage to the enemy could be calculated in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
According to news from Ukrinfrom, experts of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation carried out a successful cyber attack on the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. As a result of the attacks, the site did not work, IP telephony, domains belonging to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and servers providing the flow of electronic documents of the enemy structure were also blocked.