DI carried out a large-scale cyber attack on Russian industrial facilities: 70 terabytes of data were destroyed

Hacker. Photo from cybermolfar website

Specialists of Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, together with the Ukrainian cyber community, conducted a large-scale attack on Russian mobile communication and Internet providers, as well as on the information resources of large industrial facilities of the Russian Federation.

Ukrinform writes about this, citing its own intelligence sources.

According to sources, Russian users complained en masse about failures at the Rostelecom provider, lack of Internet connection at mobile operators MTC and Beeline, as well as problems with Yandex, where Yandex.pochta services did not work. «Yandex.eda» and «Yandex.taxi». All these resources, as noted, support and finance the war against Ukraine.

In addition, dozens of resources of large industrial facilities of the Russian Federation, which ensure the operation of Russia's military-industrial complex, were attacked. In particular, the network infrastructure of the Chaika-Service car factory, which manufactures equipment for Russian law enforcement agencies, Kontur-NIIRS LLC, which manufactures special equipment for airplanes and helicopters, and PJSC INEUM named after I.S. Brook», which supplies technical and software tools.

The attacks also affected the cloud and file storage of Internet providers Mail.ru, VDSina, Quidex, and others, as well as the resources of lighting equipment manufacturers, diesel stations, hosting providers, and ballistic protection manufacturers.

As a result of the cyber attack, at least 33 servers and 283 service computers of industrial facilities were affected, 15 cloud and file storages were destroyed and 21 websites were destroyed, the total volume of destroyed information was about 70 terabytes. At the site of the destroyed web resources, Ukrainian hackers left «plugs» with propaganda materials in support of Ukraine.

We will remind you that recently the cyber specialists of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense together with the hacker group «VO Team» paralyzed the work of the company that develops nuclear weapons of the Russian Federation near Chelyabinsk, successfully attacking a local provider.