Russian Hackers Disrupt Turkey-Syria Earthquake Disaster Relief | #Cyberattack | #Cybersecurity |

Russian hackers have disrupted communications between Nato and military airliners, delivering aid to victims of the Turkish-Syrian earthquake which has expropriated 28,000 lives.

A Nato official affirmed that the alliance had fallen victim to a cyberattack, which is deemed to have been executed by Killnet

Russian Hackers Nato Sting Websites With DDoS Attack

The Killnet claimed accountability for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks but didn’t give any more details. The group claimed they were carrying out strikes on Nato.

NATO’s Nato Special Operations Headquarters website was down for only a couple of hours before remediation.

However, it appears other organizations were affected by the attack, including the Strategic Airlift Capability, a multi-national organization that depends on Nato support in its task of supplying military and humanitarian airlifts.

SAC aircraft have been employed for a variety of missions since 2009 including the Kabul civilian evacuation of nearly 3,000 people. And currently, it is being employed to transport search and rescue supplies to earthquake-stricken areas.

Nato Cyber-Response And Investigation

Nato’s NR network – which is believed to be used for transmitting private data – had been hit by the denial of service attack. Although communication with the aircraft was not lost, the threat actor’s attack is likely to have held up the relief efforts.

Notably, attesting to the hackers’ attack, Nato officials say: NATO cyber-response team is actively grappling with an incident affecting some NATO websites. NATO deals with cyber incidents regularly and takes cybersecurity very seriously.

Arguably, Western security agencies have portrayed Killnet as a loose group of pro-Kremlin activists who aim to disrupt military and government websites of countries that support Ukraine with fairly basic DDoS attacks.

Knowingly, the cyber aggression usually causes outages of several hours and no notable lasting harm, although cyber security experts have said that the group may be pacing its moves and keeping its more cutting attacks in reserve.