Ukrainian hackers reportedly target Russian military-industrial complex in data center attack – NV sources
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Ukrainian hackers, who may be linked to cyber specialists of Ukraine’s SBU security service, have destroyed the OwenCloud data center used by the Russian military-industrial complex, oil and gas, and telecom, sources told NV on April 8.
Over 10,000 companies stored their data in the OwenCloud.ru cloud service. These are enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, oil and gas, metallurgical, and aerospace complexes, as well as telecommunications giants.
Among them are Ural Works of Civil Aviation, Scientific and Production Enterprise “Rubin” (part of the Roselektronika holding), Ural Special Equipment Plant, Gazprom, Transgaz, Lukoil, Rosneft, Norilsk Nickel, Rostelecom, Telecom, and Megafon.
This was a joint operation of the Ukrainian hacker group BLACKJACK and the SBU Cyber Department, according to NV's sources. The hackers destroyed over 300 TB of data.
This included 400 virtual and 42 physical servers that hosted internal documentation, backups, and other programs that allowed customers to remotely control production processes at their companies.
The destruction of the Russian cloud service was retaliation for the attack on the Ukrainian data center Parkovyi in January 2024, the sources added.
Ukrainian cyberattacks
Cyber specialists from the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) hacked on March 16 into Russia's public service system, which was used for electronic voting in the "presidential election."
The Defense Ministry’s National Resistance Center (NRC) also reported that the websites of Russian "election commissions" that collected "votes" from the occupied territories were down. The sites in question are dnr.izbirkom.ru, lnr.izbirkom.ru, crimea.izbirkom.ru, zaporozhye.izbirkom.ru, and kherson.izbirkom.ru.
NV's source reported on March 18 that Ukrainian hackers had gained access to the correspondence between Russian CEC member Nikolai Levichev and Boris Nadezhdin, who was trying to run in the so-called presidential election.
In his personal correspondence, Nadezhdin actively contacted representatives of the Russian Central Election Commission and resolved personal and political issues, in particular, after being denied registration as a presidential candidate. This shows signs of a "fictitious presidential candidate," according to the hackers.
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