On August 8th, the Air-Traffic command organisation "Galaxy" inward the international aerodrome "Pulkovo" (Saint Petersburg, Russia) is malfunctioned. The system controls the displace of aircraft inward the expanse of approach to the airport.
An interesting fact is that the failure occurred non alone on the server but likewise on all the computers inward the command room. Suddenly, they were frozen.
At the fourth dimension of the incident, iv Airplane were inward the air without command for almost 10 minutes.
Few days dorsum (August 3rd) earlier this incident the Airport's Quality Control Department received threatening e-mail. The Pulkovo aerodrome received these threatening emails at to the lowest degree 3 times starting from July 30.
The Cyber Criminals demanded 200 Bitcoins (around 89 meg rubles/90 meg rupees) otherwise they volition disrupt the navigation command system. Employees assume that these threats in addition to organisation failure convey a at nowadays connection.
Law enforcement agencies institute that the letters were sent from Switzerland, in addition to the SIM cards to which the addresses are linked are registered on British citizens. Most likely, hackers used faux IP-addresses to mislead the police. The law said that no i tin ship away hack the air navigation organisation of the aerodrome from external sources.
Could it hold upwards a simply coincidence that the command organisation malfunctioned afterward these threatening letters? or the hackers actually behind the attack? It is yet unknown. The experts are trying to respect the root crusade of the failure. Thankfully, in that location was no damage.
The cyber criminals tin ship away hold upwards punished alongside 3 years imprisonments or tin ship away hold upwards fined upwards to 300 thou rubles.
This is non the get-go fourth dimension an Airport receiving threatening letters from cyber criminals. But, it appears that this is get-go fourth dimension a malfunctioning-incident reported afterward such variety of letters. It should hold upwards noted that Airport "Domodedovo" (Moscow International airport) likewise received a threatening letter alongside a take away of several hundred inward Bitcoins. However, in that location was no incident reported inward this case.
