Valuable Russian Military Documents Exposed
Valuable Russian Military Documents Exposed
HUR Hacks Russian Defense Ministry, Gets Access to Classified Documents, Valuable Russian Military Documents Exposed: Report
UPDATES: Cyber specialists from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) reported that they’d hacked Russian servers and can now establish the “complete structure” of Russia’s defense ministry.
Ukraine's military intelligence on Monday reported it had successfully hacked into the Russian Defense Ministry's servers, gaining access to various officials' classified documents.
HUR Hacks Russian Defense Ministry, Gets Access to Classified Documents
By Kyiv Post
Cyber specialists from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) reported that they’d hacked Russian servers and can now establish the “complete structure” of Russia’s defense ministry.
“The analysis of the obtained data also helped to identify the generals, other high-ranking managers of the structural units of the Ministry of Defense, as well as deputies, assistants, specialists – all those who used software for electronic document management called ‘bureaucrats,’” the HUR wrote in a Telegram post on Monday (Feb. 4).
The hack has given Kyiv access to various classified documents, including those of Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, the HUR says.
Without disclosing further details and using a handshake emoji, the HUR, thanked Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu: “ This deputy shoigu played an important role in the success of the cyber attack.”
Ukrainian intelligence reported that it gained access to various orders, reports, instructions, and other documents that circulated among more than 2,000 structural units in Russia’s defense ministry.
“The work in Russian cyberspace aimed at obstructing and paralyzing the activities of law enforcement agencies and officials of the aggressor state responsible for the war against the Ukrainian people continues. To be continued!” the HUR added.
On Feb. 8, Ukraine’s cyber specialists said they’dconducteda special operation that caused massive failures in Russia’s drone control program.
And on Jan. 30, the НUR said it attacked the Russian Ministry of Defense’s communications server.
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Stock image warning of a cyberattack. Inset, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is seen at a meeting in Moscow on December 21, 2022. Ukraine's military intelligence (GUR) on Monday said it had successfully hacked into the Russian Defense Ministry's servers. PHOTOS BY SERGEY FADEICHEV/SPUTNIK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Valuable Russian Military Documents Exposed: Report
By Newsweek
Ukraine's military intelligence on Monday reported it had successfully hacked into the Russian Defense Ministry's servers, gaining access to various officials' classified documents.
"Now the Ukrainian special service owns the software for information protection and encryption, which was used by the Russian Defense Ministry, as well as an array of secret service documentation of the Russian Ministry of War," Ukraine's military intelligence directorate (GUR) announced in a post on its official Telegram channel.
Both Kyiv and Moscow have engaged in cyberattacks throughout the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2022. Two of the most high-profile instances came in recent months when Ukraine experienced nationwide communication outages after Russian hackers infiltrated Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications provider. A month later, GUR said its cyber hackers had taken down a "special communications" served used by Russia's defense ministry.
According to GUR's Monday post, the recently captured data helped its agents identify the command of Russia's defense ministry.
"The information obtained allows us to establish the complete structure of the system of the Russian Ministry of Defense and its units," GUR wrote.
GUR's message noted it gained access to official documents belonging to Timur Ivanov, Russia's deputy defense minister and former deputy governor of the Moscow Oblast.
The agency also mockingly credited Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for the cyber operation.
"Shoigu played an important role in the success of the cyberattack," GUR wrote next to a handshake emoji.
Newsweek could not verify the authenticity of GUR's report of the hacking, and the Russian Ministry of Defense was contacted via email on Monday for comment.
Although Kyiv's intelligence agency did not share specific details about the information it reportedly accessed during the recent hack, GUR said it had obtained various orders, reports, instructions and other documents that circulated among more than 2,000 structural units in Russia's Defense Ministry.
"The work in Russian cyberspace aimed at obstructing and paralyzing the activities of law enforcement agencies and officials of the aggressor state responsible for the war against the Ukrainian people continues. To be continued!" GUR wrote.
Monday's announcement from GUR comes a little less than a month after it similarly claimed success in a cyberattack that reportedly affected Russia's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
GUR said on February 8 that an operation by its cyber specialists resulted in a "massive failure" of Russia's drone program. The agency said hackers caused software used for UAVs to malfunction, which made it "probably impossible to control drones from remote controls."
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