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2023: Hacker attack, glitches

At the end of June 2023, the Russian satellite operator Dozor-Teleport was attacked by hackers. There are failures in its work.

According to the Russian service BBC"," a cyber attack on the "Watch-Teleport" was carried out by a previously unknown hacker group. Reports appearing on their freshly created Telegram-channel said the provider "maintains power lines, oil fields, military units, a MO RUSSIAN FEDERATION FSB pension fund and many other projects, including the northern merchant fleet and the Bilibin nuclear power plant," and some of its satellite terminals were taken out of service.

Russian satellite operator "Dozor-Teleport" attacked by hackers

According to the international project Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA), which monitors interruptions Internet in different countries of the world, the Watch network stopped working at 23:00 Moscow time on June 28, 2023. The same information was confirmed by Doug Madori, the head of the American company Kentik, which analyzes the work Internet and monitors networks, the Russian BBC service reports.

General Director of ZAO "Dozor-Teleport" and First Deputy General Director of JSC "AmtelCom" Alexander Anosov commented on the incident:

The Watch-Teleport company confirms the fact of a cyber attack on the company's systems. According to preliminary data, the infrastructure on the side of the cloud provider was compromised. Now restoration work is underway, most of it was restored yesterday, the rest is being restored as equipment is accessed. And separately, we note that the network is spreading information that the attack is aimed at a telecom operator providing services for the Ministry of Defense. Most likely, this conclusion is associated with the historical logo of the company where the letter "Z" is written in Latin: "DoZor." We thank all customers for their patience and understanding.[1]

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