Russian Drone Control Programs Breached by HUR

December 18, 2024

INCIDENT

Ukrainian hackers working within Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR) have successfully breached Russian drone control programs. The servers responsible for the “friend or foe” identification system for Russian drones ceased functioning, resulting in its military losing access to its drones.

Incident Date

February 8, 2024

Location

Russia

Estimated Cost

destruction of 280 drone control servers, loss of ~2 petabytes (2M GB) of data.

Type of Malware

No Malware identified