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A thing of beauty! Belarus hackers do a ransomware attack on the Belarus rail network!
The group, Cyber Partisans, made the following demands on Twitter:
We have encryption keys, and we are ready to return Belarusian Railroad's systems to normal mode. Our conditions:
🔺 Release of the 50 political prisoners who are most in need of medical assistance.
🔺Preventing the presence of Russian troops on the territory of #Belarus.
Belarus borders Ukraine and is "undergoing joint military exercises with Russia", i.e. Russian troops are swarming through its country, staging and ready to invade Ukraine at a moment's notice. The Cyber Partisans have thrown quite a monkey wrench into those plans by completely disabling the rail network!
In addition to encrypting the system's servers, they destroyed all the backups, which I guess were stored in a SAN online. Bad design there, fellas! The Partisans said that the network had many entry points and was poorly isolated from the internet.
Sometimes hactivists do a good job! I hope these people practices amazingly good operational security (OpSec), because if Putin or Lukeshenko find them, they are dead.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/hactivists-say-they-hacked-belarus-rail-system-to-stop-russian-military-buildup/
We have encryption keys, and we are ready to return Belarusian Railroad's systems to normal mode. Our conditions:
🔺 Release of the 50 political prisoners who are most in need of medical assistance.
🔺Preventing the presence of Russian troops on the territory of #Belarus.
Belarus borders Ukraine and is "undergoing joint military exercises with Russia", i.e. Russian troops are swarming through its country, staging and ready to invade Ukraine at a moment's notice. The Cyber Partisans have thrown quite a monkey wrench into those plans by completely disabling the rail network!
In addition to encrypting the system's servers, they destroyed all the backups, which I guess were stored in a SAN online. Bad design there, fellas! The Partisans said that the network had many entry points and was poorly isolated from the internet.
Sometimes hactivists do a good job! I hope these people practices amazingly good operational security (OpSec), because if Putin or Lukeshenko find them, they are dead.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/hactivists-say-they-hacked-belarus-rail-system-to-stop-russian-military-buildup/
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