Ukrainian intelligence's cyber specialists target Russian military educational institutions

Babel, Suspilne, and Hromadske sources reported this.

In particular, Ukraine's intelligence carried out a cyberattack on the network infrastructure of the North Caucasus Federal University, which trains drone operators, digital communications specialists, engineers and physicists for the Russian army.

According to sources, this university supports the activities of a number of educational institutions in several regions of Russia, including 7 institutes.

As a result of the operation, Ukrainian hackers affected the facility's internal information infrastructure and destroyed Russia's targeted resources (websites, databases, file storages) totaling more than 150 terabytes. The hackers attacked 11 websites, more than 7,000 official personal computers, 135 servers and file storages.

In addition, to “cover up the activities of the main direction of damage,” a series of cyberattacks were carried out on a number of targeted Internet resources and file storages of Russian organizations.

“After gaining access to the enemy's network infrastructure, the affected web resources published a propaganda leaflet in support of the Armed Forces' offensive operations,” the source said.

• On October 7, cyber specialists of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine together with activists of the Vo Team group attacked the Russian automated system Pravosudie (Justice), which is used for electronic document flow in courts