{"id":48612,"date":"2025-07-28T19:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/russian-flag-carrier-cancels-flights-amid-cyberattack-claims"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:13:02","slug":"russian-flag-carrier-cancels-flights-amid-cyberattack-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/russian-flag-carrier-cancels-flights-amid-cyberattack-claims","title":{"rendered":"Russian Flag Carrier Cancels Flights Amid Cyberattack Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Russia\u2019s flag carrier Aeroflot canceled on Monday over 40 flights after what it called information failure.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellations were announced by the press service of the airline headquartered at Moscow&#8217;s Sheremetyevo International Airport, which did not provide a reason behind the failure of its information systems or how long it would take to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassengers of cancelled flights have the following options: refund or reissue for flights in the next 10 days,\u201d the statement said, adding that a team of specialists is currently working to restore the normal operation of its services.<\/p>\n<p>Most flights cancelled were domestic, but also included some heading to Armenia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor general&#8217;s office said the reason behind the failure in Aeroflot&#8217;s information system is a &#8220;hacker attack,&#8221; and that a criminal case was registered.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Telegram from a hacker group calling itself Silent Crow took responsibility for the attack, claiming it &#8220;completely destroyed&#8221; the airline\u2019s internal IT infrastructure following a \u201clong-term and large-scale operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a year, we were inside their corporate network, methodically developing access, going deep into the very core of the infrastructure,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The group claimed it destroyed about 7,000 servers, allegedly obtaining 22 TB of information.<\/p>\n<p>It also threatened to shortly publish \u201cpersonal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anadolu could not immediately verify the authenticity of the statement, while Aeroflot did not comment on the claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Eritrea<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Russia\u2019s flag carrier Aeroflot canceled on Monday over 40 flights after what it called information failure. 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