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Time of India
28-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Russia's Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights after cyberattack causes IT outage
Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot suffered a mass IT outage Monday following a cyberattack, Russia's prosecutor's office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others. Footage shared on social media showed hundreds of delayed passengers crowding Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where Aeroflot is based. The outage also disrupted flights operated by Aeroflot's subsidiaries, Rossiya and Pobeda. While most of the flights affected were domestic, the disruption also led to cancellations for some international flights to Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. In a statement released early Monday, Aeroflot warned passengers that the company's IT system was experiencing unspecified difficulties and that disruption could follow. Russia's Prosecutor's Office later confirmed that a cyberattack had caused the outage and that it had opened a criminal investigation. Live Events Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called reports of the attack "quite alarming," adding that "the hacker threat is a threat that remains for all large companies providing services to the general public." Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans , which opposes the rule of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group claimed it had accessed Aeroflot's corporate network for a year, copying customer and internal data, including audio recordings of phone calls, data from the company's own surveillance on employees and other intercepted communications. "All of these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed and restoring them will possibly require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic," the channel purporting to the Silent Crow group wrote on Telegram. There was no way to independently verify its claims. The same channel also shared screenshots that appeared to show Aeroflot's internal IT systems and insinuated that Silent Crow could begin sharing the data it had seized in the coming days. "The personal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip - albeit without luggage and to the same destination," it said. Russia's airports have repeatedly faced mass delays over the summer as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks, with flights grounded amid safety concerns.
Winnipeg Free Press
28-07-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Russia's Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights after cyberattack causes IT outage
Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot suffered a mass IT outage Monday following a cyberattack, Russia's prosecutor's office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others. Footage shared on social media showed hundreds of delayed passengers crowding Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where Aeroflot is based. The outage also disrupted flights operated by Aeroflot's subsidiaries, Rossiya and Pobeda. While most of the flights affected were domestic, the disruption also led to cancellations for some international flights to Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. In a statement released early Monday, Aeroflot warned passengers that the company's IT system was experiencing unspecified difficulties and that disruption could follow. Russia's Prosecutor's Office later confirmed that a cyberattack had caused the outage and that it had opened a criminal investigation. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called reports of the attack 'quite alarming,' adding that 'the hacker threat is a threat that remains for all large companies providing services to the general public.' Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group claimed it had accessed Aeroflot's corporate network for a year, copying customer and internal data, including audio recordings of phone calls, data from the company's own surveillance on employees and other intercepted communications. 'All of these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed and restoring them will possibly require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,' the channel purporting to the Silent Crow group wrote on Telegram. There was no way to independently verify its claims. The same channel also shared screenshots that appeared to show Aeroflot's internal IT systems and insinuated that Silent Crow could begin sharing the data it had seized in the coming days. 'The personal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip – albeit without luggage and to the same destination,' it said. Russia's airports have repeatedly faced mass delays over the summer as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks, with flights grounded amid safety concerns.
Washington Post
28-07-2025
- Washington Post
Russia's Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights after cyberattack causes IT outage
Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot suffered a mass IT outage Monday following a cyberattack, Russia's prosecutor's office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others. Footage shared on social media showed hundreds of delayed passengers crowding Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where Aeroflot is based. The outage also disrupted flights operated by Aeroflot's subsidiaries, Rossiya and Pobeda.
Daily Mirror
27-05-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
Creepy ghost town suddenly abandoned now overrun with polar bears
Pyramiden, a town in the Arctic Circle that has stood empty of humans since 1998, is a living museum to Soviet life. Visit today and you will find cups left on the table, skiing equipment abandoned in the hallway and newspaper cuttings on the wall An eerie ghost town has been left exactly as it was when crews abandoned it 27 years ago. The Mary Celeste ship has been etched into the memories of school children for decades. The American merchant brigantine was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on December 4, 1872, with food still on plates as if the crew was about to sit down to dinner. The mystery surrounding the abandoned ship has captivated people for over 150 years, leading to numerous theories about the fate of its crew. Far less well known is the story of Pyramiden, a town in the Arctic Circle that has stood empty of humans since 1998. Visit today and you will find cups left on the table, skiing equipment abandoned in the hallway and newspaper cuttings on the wall. "Walking Pyramiden today gives you a glimpes into the Soviet -style nostalgia, outdoor as well as indoor. Best of all, its not an artificial scenery aimed for some kind of movie-production. This is real. The smell of papirosa, likely the strongest cigarette ever made, stains on the indoor walls. Hammer and Sickle ornaments and the Soviet star are used as decoration around the town," the Barent Observer writes of Pyramiden. "In a remote room inside the Palace of Culture are a few empty bottles of the cheap domestic Rossiya- and Priviet vodka. A book with the transcripts from the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union lays on a desk. That was the first congress presided over by Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Central Committee." There are few signs of life beyond the occasional hardy seabird, an Arctic fox or a polar bear looking for its next meal. Unlike the Mary Celeste, there is no mystery around why the occupants of Pyramiden left in such a hurry. The Russian state-owned mining company Trust Arktikugol closed down Pyramiden's mining operations in April 1998, following 53 years of continuous activity. The end of the settlement neared as coal prices dwindled, difficulties with coal extraction from the mountain became more apparent, and 141 people tragically lost their lives in 1996 at Operafjellet. Miners and their families perished in the plane crash that had been ferrying them from Pyramiden to Barentsburg. Such was the scale of the tragedy and the impact it had on the town of 1,000 that its continued operation proved impossible. The town was first founded by Sweden in 1910 but was sold to the USSR 17 years later. From 1955 to 1998, up to nine million tonnes of coal were thought to have been pumped out of Pyramiden. Svalbard belongs to Norway under the Svalbard treaty, which allows citizens from all its member countries to become residents. The treaty reads: 'All citizens and all companies of every nation under the treaty are allowed to become residents and to have access to Svalbard including the right to fish, hunt or undertake any kind of maritime, industrial, mining or trade activity." In its pomp, it boasted a theatre, studios for creative arts, and a library. The schools, 24-hour canteen, and sports complex are all gone. All that remains is a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, the northernmost monument to him in the world. Today, the main thing occupying the ghost town now are the terrifying polar bears. However, six people operate as rifle-carrying warders in the summer. Despite the nearest settlement being some 31 miles away, dark tourism has been gently ticking along since 2013, but you can only access Pyramiden by boat or snowmobile for nine months of the year. One visitor to the town in 2018 wrote in Haaretz: "There are thousands of angry polar bears all around us.'
The Sun
14-05-2025
- Business
- The Sun
PM Anwar invites Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, to resume direct flights to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has invited Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, to resume direct flights to Malaysia as soon as possible. 'We have taken a position of centrality in Malaysia, as well as ASEAN, to decide for ourselves what is best for Malaysia and its people,' he said during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, today. Aeroflot is the largest Russian airline group, which includes the Rossiya and Pobeda airlines. The Aeroflot Group is the undisputed leader of Russian commercial aviation. In 2024, Aeroflot carried 30.1 million passengers; 55.3 million if other Aeroflot Group airlines are included. Aeroflot is constantly expanding its domestic route network, including flights between the country's regions, developing socially oriented transportation programmes and implementing its flat fares on flights to cities in the country's Far East and Kaliningrad.
