Russia's Largest Platform For State Procurement Hit By Cyberattack (therecord.media) 53
Roseltorg, Russia's main electronic trading platform for government and corporate procurement, confirmed it was targeted by a cyberattack claimed by the pro-Ukraine hacker group Yellow Drift. The group allegedly deleted 550 terabytes of data, causing significant operational delays and client concerns. The Record reports: The company initially confirmed last Thursday that its services had been temporarily suspended, without providing further details. In a recent Telegram statement, Roseltorg disclosed that it had been targeted by "an external attempt to destroy data and the entire infrastructure of electronic trading." Roseltorg stated that all data and infrastructure affected by the recent attack had been fully restored, and trading systems are expected to resume operations shortly. However, as of the time of writing, the company's website remains offline.
Last week, the previously unknown pro-Ukraine hacker group Yellow Drift claimed responsibility for the attack on Roseltorg, stating they had deleted 550 terabytes of data, including emails and backups. As proof, the hackers published screenshots from the platform's allegedly compromised infrastructure on their Telegram channel. "If you support tyranny and sponsor wars, be prepared to return to the Stone Age," the hackers said.
The cyberattack on Roseltorg is already impacting clients who rely on the platform's operations, including government agencies, state-owned companies and suppliers. Following the company's announcement, many clients expressed concerns in the comments section, complaining about potential financial losses and delays in the procurement process. Roseltorg said in a statement that once access to the trading systems is reinstated, all deadlines for procedures, including contract signings, will be automatically extended without requiring any requests from users.
Last week, the previously unknown pro-Ukraine hacker group Yellow Drift claimed responsibility for the attack on Roseltorg, stating they had deleted 550 terabytes of data, including emails and backups. As proof, the hackers published screenshots from the platform's allegedly compromised infrastructure on their Telegram channel. "If you support tyranny and sponsor wars, be prepared to return to the Stone Age," the hackers said.
The cyberattack on Roseltorg is already impacting clients who rely on the platform's operations, including government agencies, state-owned companies and suppliers. Following the company's announcement, many clients expressed concerns in the comments section, complaining about potential financial losses and delays in the procurement process. Roseltorg said in a statement that once access to the trading systems is reinstated, all deadlines for procedures, including contract signings, will be automatically extended without requiring any requests from users.
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Fuck that. russia is worse and it is ALWAYS worse than EVERYONE else and it prides itself on this very fact. So shove your both sides psy-op propaganda up your facist ass vlad. It's time to shove another potato up your ass anyway.
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Found the Anonymous Coward from Moscow and/or the RNC.
Russians have ALWAYS been terrible neighbors, just ask any of the countries that border it.
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Your videos literally have this line in their descriptions:
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Their tips on persuasion must be pretty shit, judging by their performance here!
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Or almost all of the former Soviet states. Even during those days they hated Russians, they just couldn't be open about it lest they quietly disappear one day.
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One of the largest bumps to NATO's memberships happened shortly after the breakup of the USSR. Basically all former Soviet states (save Ukraine) immediately asked to join NATO, and those that didn't, asked to join later.
You have to be a pretty terrible neighbor if everyone immediately starts going to the other side when they can.
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Technically Ukraine asked later too
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One of the largest bumps to NATO's memberships happened shortly after the breakup of the USSR. Basically all former Soviet states (save Ukraine) immediately asked to join NATO, and those that didn't, asked to join later.
You have to be a pretty terrible neighbor if everyone immediately starts going to the other side when they can.
It's not that Russia was a terrible neighbour (it is that too) but rather a terrible master and those who suffered under the Soviet Union knew it would only be a matter of time before Russia wanted to be an empire again. Turns out they were right.
Most people in the UK will know an old Pole, Czech or East German who could describe how bad it was under the Soviets and those countries in the 80's didn't even get the worst of it.
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No, they didn't. Some did, like Poland, but most didn't.
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They're in for a tough time, what with the US, Hungary, and Turkey likely doing their best to give Ukraine to Russia in 2025.
Even Canada might go slightly right in the wake of Trump's election to the South, though Trump talking about taking over Canada and our largish Ukrainian population might stiffen our resolve for what that's worth. Hopefully with the US trying to undermine NATO the EU will grow a pair and start a NO-USA defense club. It'll cost, but it'll cost less than depending on Trump or his successors.
Every Ukrainian who dies because of the invasion is a tragedy, every Russian who dies because of it is a victory. I hope for Ukraine's survival, and Russia's ultimately weak enough Putin's probably doomed it to be a meal for China no matter what happens from this point forward.
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You need to cut back on the drugs. You're getting to the 'extreme neurological damage's stage.
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every Russian who dies because of it is a victory
What a racist pig. Deaths on both sides are tragedies, and Ukraine is making a point of openly attacking apartment buildings and shopping centers since their drones can't get past the Russian AD systems protecting military targets.
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The easiest way for Russians not to die is to not invade their neighbors. I have no empathy for invaders, I have plenty for people defending their homes.
Check your values, because you're trying to 'both sides' the victims into co-aggressors to justify their genocide. You're just plain evil.
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Both sides WERE aggressors. Or did 8 years of bloody ethnic attacks on the Donbass and multitudinous massacres of ethnic Russian and Roma citizens not count?
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I'm sure you're going to get your head pats from Putin. Good useful idiot.
It's not like Putin was moving in those ethnic Russians to have a pretext for invading or anything, no sir. And those weren't soldiers, either. Just patriotic Russians with military gear visiting their Ukrainian families! And Donbas is rightfully Russian, right? Sure.
You remain an evil person trying to enable a genocide against Ukrainians. If you feel so strongly about it, go enlist in the Russian army and get in on all the gen
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Ethnic Russians have lived throughout the area for centuries, although the Soviets did move the Crimean Tartars (well before it was gifted to Ukraine) out to supplant them with Russians. The whole idea of a separate Ukrainian ethnicity is a fairly recent fiction, Ukrainians and Russians speaking their native languages can understand each other just fine.
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Well, I guess that makes invasion and genocide ok then.
Nope.
After invading Ukraine, any Russian participating in or supporting the invasion has no value to me as a human being. Ukrainians responding to the invasion have my empathy and support.
What kind of person keeps making excuses for genocide? You.
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Where's Nelson (Score:2)
when you need him?
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HAW HAW!
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It's always use it before you get detected versus waiting to potentially cause even more damage. When is the right time to act? Think about Israel who hacked the Hezbollah's pagers. Apparently, they thought they were about to get detected soon when they acted.
You don't know for how long the Ukrainians were in before they acted and deleted everything. They might very well have been in for a while doing exactly what you suggested before deleting everything because they thought they were about to get detected.
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It possibly was Israel that planted the idea of using pagers in their heads to begin with and let them think it was their own idea. Just plain ol' social engineering.
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How do you know they burned their access? Probably an insider provided it.
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They apparently weren't in long enough to figure out where the backup systems were, so probably not.
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It doesn't work that way. They know most of what they are told is bullshit, they also know that saying that can be a ticket to the Ukrainian front lines... And before Ukraine there were other consequences for not pretending to believe the bullshit.
What they don't know is what the truth is, and distrusting everything is a problem. For instance, Russians bought in to their own anti-vax propaganda and lost a lot of people to COVID unnecessarily.
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In the 1970s a Soviet general told writer Farley Mowat, "The difference between Soviet propaganda and American propaganda is that we don't believe ours."
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> so users don't know what to trust.
I was going to say the same, but then I realised this is a Russian trading exchange, so you already don't know who to trust.
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Rather than just simple deletion, they may have caused more trouble by keeping a low profile and selectively altering critical information on the platform, so users don't know what to trust.
Who ordered 20 tonnes of Borscht? I vant Ameerikan borgar.
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