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Title: Ukrainian Hackers Claim To Have Destroyed Major Russian Drone Maker's
Entire Network

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/2350...

Ukrainian hacker group BO Team, with help from the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance
and possibly Ukraine's military, claims to have wiped out one of Russia's
largest military drone manufacturers, destroying 47TB of production data and
even disabling the doors in the facility. "Or, as described by the hacking
collective (per Google translate), they 'deeply penetrated' the drone
manufacturer 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization and denazification,'"
reports The Register. From the report: BO Team (also known as Black Owl)
announced the breach on its Telegram channel, and claimed to have carried out
the operation alongside fellow hackers the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance "and one
very well-known organization, the mention of which makes Vanya's bottle
receivers explode," according to a Google translation of the Russian text.
While the "very well-known organization" isn't named, BO Team included a link
to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence. The military intelligence agency, working
alongside the attackers, "carried out large-scale work to capture the entire
network and server infrastructure of Gaskar Group, collect valuable
information about the UAVs being produced and prospective, and then destroy
the information and disable this infrastructure," the Telegram post
continued. This reportedly included 47TB of technical information about the
production of Russian drones, and BO Team claims to have destroyed all of the
information on Gaskar's servers, including 10TB of backup files. "By the way,
from the information we received, China is providing assistance in the
production and training of specialists of Gaskar Group," the hackers added
via Telegram. BO Team also posted what they claim to be confidential employee
questionnaires [PDF]. On their own Telegram channel, the Ukrainian Cyber
Alliance said they also stole "all the source code" before destroying
everything. "The network went down so thoroughly that the doors in the
building were blocked," the pro-Ukraine crew wrote, per Google translate. "To
open them, the administration had to turn on the fire alarm. Most likely, the
defense order is on the verge of failure, and thousands of drones will not
get to the front in the near future."

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