"People need to know about danger": Hackers help Putin to lead cyberwar with the West - the media

According to journalists, Russian hackers use the SCAN system, which helps to identify weaknesses in computer systems. So they look for potential goals for attacks around the world. Russian intelligence services use hacker services from the Moscow company Vulkan to lead cyberwar against the event. About it writes The Guardian, referring to the leakage of data from the company.

It is reported that the leakage of thousands of pages of materials is responsible for an anonymous employee of a company who is indignant with a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The source called the Government of the Russian Federation "cowardly and wrong. " "People need to know about the danger. In connection with the events in Ukraine, I decided to publish this information. The company is engaged in bad cases, and the Russian government is cowardly and wrong.

I am indignant with invasion of Ukraine and the horrible things that are happening there," - quoted the publication informant. The publication writes that the anonymous has shared data with a startup Paper Trail Media, whose office is located in Munich. According to journalists, 5 Western special services confirmed that Vulkan files are released. The leakage is reported that emails, internal documents, project plans, budgets and contracts.

They give an idea of ​​the large -scale efforts of the Kremlin in the cybergsphere at that time. It is unknown whether the Vulkan tools were used for hackers attacks. The material also states that some documents are something like "potential goals". For example, a US map with some dots, as well as a detailed nuclear power plant scheme in Switzerland. The publication writes that Vulkan is a cybersecurity company. It is part of the defense-industrial complex of Russia.

Since 2011, the company has received special state licenses to work with classified military projects. According to journalists, work processes in the company are organized on the principles of strict operational secrecy, while employees never tell what other departments work on. The founders of the company are reported, Anton Markov and Alexander Izhavsky. Both graduated from the St. Petersburg Military Academy and served in the army of the Russian Federation.

The publication writes that the work of Vulkan is related to the FSB, GRU, HPR and other special services of the Russian Federation. Yes, Vulkan, as the material says, contacted the Hacker Group of Sandworm, which, according to the US intelligence service, twice caused the power of electricity in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympic Games in South Korea and launched the notpetya virus.

Under the code name Scan-V, he searches on the Internet of vulnerability, which are then stored for use in future cyberattacks. According to journalists, hacker groups enter computer systems, first looking for weaknesses. Scan-V supports this process, conducting automated exploration of potential goals around the world in search of vulnerable servers and network devices. The intelligence is then stored in storage facilities. The SCAN project was reported in 2018.

He was ordered at the Institute of Engineering Physics, which is related to the game. "Scan is undoubtedly created for offensive purposes. It fits convenient into the organizational structure and strategic approach of the game," said the unnamed analyst to journalists. We will remind that on March 28 the state media of Slovakia reported the attack of Russian hackers.