Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of a Russian drone manufacturer: what is known (prm.ua)
from cyrano@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world on 16 Jul 19:23
https://piefed.social/post/1047824

cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/1047817

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cyrano@piefed.social on 16 Jul 19:23 next collapse

The attack destroyed over 47 TB of critical data, blocked internal systems, and effectively halted the plant’s operations.

ramenshaman@lemmy.world on 16 Jul 22:57 next collapse

Sick 🤘

catty@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 22:16 collapse

?? Backups exist for a reason

kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Jul 22:29 next collapse

Let’s hope they don’t work

kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Jul 12:06 collapse

All information on the manufacturer’s servers has been destroyed, including 10 terabytes of backup materials.

The numbers might not add up, but it’s possible the hackers had access to the (insufficient, and badly secured) backups to delete them too.

Lexam@lemmy.world on 16 Jul 19:43 next collapse

I prefer the term Cyber Buccaneers .

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 16 Jul 20:55 next collapse

We need to learn from it.

Similar attacks may be possible against our industry.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jul 00:29 collapse

What is your industry?

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 01:36 collapse

Recycling comic book characters into movies

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 16 Jul 21:28 next collapse

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

romantired@shibanu.app on 17 Jul 16:35 collapse

I almost involuntarily vomited

AngryRobot@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 17:13 next collapse

Then go Russia where you wont have to read that. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

[deleted] on 18 Jul 12:03 collapse

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip on 17 Jul 17:24 next collapse

You should go see a doctor then.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

[deleted] on 18 Jul 12:08 collapse

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Manitobruh@lemmy.ca on 17 Jul 21:57 next collapse

Ти сука. Слава Україні.

romantired@shibanu.app on 18 Jul 12:01 collapse

Powerful! 😅

Snowpix@lemmy.ca on 18 Jul 12:55 next collapse

I’m glad! Slava Ukraini, scumbag :D 🇺🇦

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 18 Jul 14:45 collapse

I genuinely can’t figure our why would anyone still support imperialism in 2025 instead of freedom. Imagine vomitting because you want to be enslaved and freedom sounds unacceptable to you

Morphit@feddit.uk on 16 Jul 22:36 next collapse

”Ukrainian cybercriminals"

Hot take; damaging a nation’s ability to perpetrate a genocide is not a crime.

[deleted] on 17 Jul 14:51 next collapse

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[deleted] on 17 Jul 15:59 next collapse

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ViscloReader@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 16:40 next collapse

Cold take

x00z@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 17:21 collapse

Most of the mentioning in the article uses “hacktivists” though.

And cybercriminals might refer to separate blackhat hackers too.

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jul 23:34 next collapse

This is actually pretty interesting. Russians are typically more tech savvy than you would expect. A factory full of them and this still happened.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 17 Jul 03:23 next collapse

than you would expect.

The cause might be somewhere in your expectations…

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 17 Jul 05:54 next collapse

they are good at hacking and spreading propaganda via troll farms, putin probably employs more of them than other countries do,.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 14:52 collapse

LOL

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 16:52 collapse

Hey look, there’s one now. What’s worse is I don’t think putin even cuts them a check.

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Jul 10:33 next collapse

There are Russians who are more tech savvy than you would expect, but in average they’re just like the rest.

One would expect that in Russia, like everywhere, the kind of people hired to manage the IT infrastructure in most companies are not the “hacker elite” (unless the company gets one purely by luck)

The only shocking thing here is that a military manufacturer - which one would expect to try a bit harder to find the kind of systems manager that can harden their internal systems - seems to have not properly hardenned/segregated their systems.

Then again, maybe they’re not totally incompetent and do have their mission critical stuff air-gapped and the damage done by the Ukranian hackers is less impactful than the headline implies. From the outside it’s hard to tell.

rottingleaf@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 16:59 next collapse

Russians are typically more tech savvy than you would expect.

Well, as someone living in Russia, I don’t really feel this so much

axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe on 17 Jul 17:44 collapse

you’re literally on lemmy

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works on 17 Jul 21:19 collapse

This shouldn’t be relevant but actually yea, ax has a good point. Plenty of people don’t really understand things that aren’t part of a big brand online.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 17:10 next collapse

it depends if the one that’s tech savvy enough to prevent that it’s paid enough for his job, or if the money allocated for that went to fund the yacht holidays of some general

Honytawk@lemmy.zip on 17 Jul 17:26 collapse

Their need to be more tech savvy is to avoid paying high taxes on electronics, so they have to cobble together working machines from spare parts.

They are good at getting things working, but they are not good at getting them working well.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 17 Jul 05:53 next collapse

considered russia has done the same in various forms on different countries.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 14:51 collapse

suuure

Mystech@lemmy.world on 17 Jul 14:40 next collapse

Misspelled “patriots” in that headline, tankies.

[deleted] on 17 Jul 14:49 next collapse

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Morphit@feddit.uk on 17 Jul 17:45 collapse

Hack the planet!

romantired@shibanu.app on 17 Jul 16:34 collapse

now that’s a victory

romantired@shibanu.app on 18 Jul 12:05 collapse

zradoperemoga