Updated on 2022-11-21: Cyber Partisans hack and disrupt Kremlin censor
Belarusian hacktivist group Cyber Partisans has hacked the Russian General Radio Frequency Center (GRFC), a smaller sub-agency that’s part of the Roskomnadzor, the Russian government’s telecommunications watchdog.
In Telegram and Twitter posts, the Cyber Partisans said they gained access to the agency’s internal network, from where they stole more than 2TB of emails and documents before trashing its domain controller and encrypting local workstations.
🔥The work of the main #Kremlin censor has been disrupted. They monitor and censor ppl for @roscomnadzor. 👊📛 Since the beginning of the war, they follow Putin's opponents, write denunciations to the #FSB & other agencies, & block services that help convey truthful info. 1/4 pic.twitter.com/vDbqHfCQOU
— Belarusian Cyber-Partisans (@cpartisans) November 18, 2022
“The work of the chief Kremlin censor has been disrupted,” the group boasted.
“We also have a huge amount of material proving large-scale surveillance on the network and attempts to establish total control over everyone who has spoken out against the Putin regime over the past 20 years,” they added, promising to share the stolen data with journalists.
The GRFC confirmed the breach to Kommersant and blamed the hack on the use of a “previously unused vulnerability,” but the agency vehemently denied that any employee workstations were encrypted.
The incident marks the second time the Roskomnadzor has dealt with a major security breach this year after the Anonymous hacker collective also breached and then leaked more than 800TB of data from the agency’s servers earlier this year in March. The leaked documents showed the agency actively intervening and censoring the narrative around Russia’s role in Ukraine, such as prohibiting the use of the word invasion to describe Russia’s so-called “special military operation.”
Updated on 2022-10-05: NRA hacktivists
KyivPost has a profile on the National Republican Army (NRA), a hacktivist group that claims to be made up of Russian citizens looking the overthrow the Putin Government, a-la the Cyber Partisans group in Belarus. The group’s latest action includes ransoming Unisoftware, a software service provider for Russia’s Federal Tax Service, the Russian Ministry of Finance, and the Central Bank of Russia. Read more: Russian Citizens Wage Cyberwar From Within
Updated on September 2022: Hackers try to sell NFT of Belarusian leader’s supposed stolen passport
A group of hacktivists called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans are selling an NFT featuring the purported passport information of Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko. They said they’re also looking to sell NFTs featuring the passport info of other government officials closely connected with him. The group claim to have hacked into a government database that has the passport info of every Belarusian citizen and have used this to launch an NFT collection called “Belarisuan Passports”. The group say the move is part of a grassroots fundraising campaign to fight “bloody regimes in Minsk and Moscow.” Read More: Hackers try to sell NFT of Belarusian leader’s supposed stolen passport
🧵1/3🔥For the 1st time in human history a #hacktivist collective obtained passport info of the ALL country's citizens. Now we're offering you an opportunity to become a part of this history 😎. Get a unique digital version of #lukashenka passport as #NFT https://t.co/gOlWdoUehi pic.twitter.com/RxdWpBqA8f
— Belarusian Cyber-Partisans (@cpartisans) August 30, 2022
Overview: Belarus leak
Belarusian hacktivist group Cyber Partisans released on Tuesday 1.5 TB of data they claim is phone calls secretly collected by the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs from foreign embassies and consulates inside Belarus. The group claims they have more than 50,000 hours of recorded calls, according to Cyberscoop. Among the leaked audio are phone calls allegedly recorded inside the Russian embassy in Minsk.
🔥Wiretapped conversations of #Russian embassy in #Belarus. The "brotherly" Lukashenka turns out to be not so brotherly after all. Do you think it violates the The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961?
(eng subs incl) https://t.co/j97jwXM8bU— Belarusian Cyber-Partisans (@cpartisans) June 14, 2022
