Blackjack, a Ukrainian hacker group affiliated with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said it had launched a cyberattack on Moskollector, a company that operates the communication system for Moscow’s sewage network.
Unnamed government sources told Ukrainian news outlet LIGA.net that Blackjack managed to shut off 87,000 alarm sensors throughout Moscow and the surrounding suburbs, preventing the company from responding to emergency events. The source also claimed that Blackjack destroyed 70 servers and at least 90 terabytes of company data, including emails, backup copies and contracts.
“Now the operation of the object of critical infrastructure of Moscow is completely blocked, the company cannot respond to accidents and emergency events. It will take 15 to 30 days to restore its functioning,” the source told LIGA.net.
“We wish Moscow various man-made disasters these days,” the source added.
While initial reports attached a screenshot of the hacked main page, Moskollector’s website appears to be up and running at the time of this publication, and Kyiv Post is unable to ascertain the degree of damage to the system.
Screenshot of Moskollector’s hacked main page provided by the unnamed source to LIGA.net.
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According to Moskollector’s site, the company has been subordinate to the Moscow City Department of Housing and Communal Services since March 2017.
The alleged cyberattack on Moskollector follows another hack from the same group two days ago, on April 8, against Russian data center OwenCloud.ru, which saw the destruction of more than 300 terabytes of data used by the Russian military-industrial complex, oil and gas, and telecom in what the hacker group called a “retaliatory” strike in response to January’s Russian hack on Ukraine’s data center.
Cyberattacks have been commonplace throughout Russia’s war in Ukraine, with both sides launching cyberattacks in a tit-for-tat manner that are sometimes coordinated with conventional strikes evidenced in Moscow’s strike on Ukrainian infrastructure.
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This is all Ukraine can do since they've lost the war entirely. By September, Russia will be in Kiev. As for the morons talking about "Moscow being a cesspool", you're living in the 1990's. Everyone who's been to Moscow lately describes it as a clean, safe, economically prosperous city - certainly when compared to he average US city which is sagging under economic collapse.
Well that’s quite the shitty target!
Like 90% of russia doesn't have indoor plumbing as it is. The whole place is basically one big open sewer. Do you think anyone will even notice?
Ahhh...moscow in the springtime.
The ambience of its oppressed people trogging along with heads hung in national shame. "Does anyone know where I can buy eggs" asks one. The cheerful clinking of empty vodka bottles inadvertently disturbed by shuffling feet. A few coloured 'soviet onion' topped buildings to counter this otherwise dark centre of russian oppression.
The stench of a cesspool.