A powerful and effective cyberattack on the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) infrastructure took place on Saturday morning. The news became known on Monday morning, the agency’s official website (favt.ru) went also down.
The cyber attack was reported by a number of russian resources and Telegram channels. Officially, the Russian Federation does not confirm anything.
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"All documents, e-mails, files on servers have been lost, the register of aircraft and aviation personnel is being searched, the public service system has been removed. All incoming and outgoing letters of the last 1.5 years have been lost. We don't know how to work," - one of the quotes that describes the depth of the problems that suddenly arose in Rosaviatsia.
No backup of these data exists due to lack of funds allocated by Russia's Ministry of Finance. Rosaviatsia accuses the success of the hacker attack (presumably carried out by the Anonymous Hacking Group) to poor performance of contractual obligations by company LLC “InfAvia”, which operates the IT infrastructure of Rosaviatsia. “The prosecutor’s office and the FSB have been sitting at Rosaviatsia since Saturday,” said a person familiar with the case.
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