The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced it had breached the Russian Ministry of Defense (Minoborony) servers as part of a special operation, and stolen confidential documents.
The stolen documents include:
- Confidential documents, including orders and reports circulated among over 2000 structural units of the Russian military service.
- Software used by the Russian Ministry of Defense to encrypt and protect its data.
- Data that helped identify senior heads of structural units of the Minoborony, as well as deputies, assistants, and specialists who used software for electronic document management called “bureaucracy.”
- Documents belonging to the Russian Deputy Minister of Defense, Timur Vadimovich Ivanov.
The stolen documents allowed intelligence analysts of Ukraine’s GUR to delineate the comprehensive structure of the Russian Ministry of Defense system and its various units.
The press release notes that the particular minister, Ivanov, had a significant role in the success of the cyber-attack, though any actual details on the operation are omitted.
Previously, the GUR has claimed unconfirmed breaches into the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, ‘Rosaviatsia,’ and the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS).
Two of these attacks allegedly involved data backups and database destruction aimed at operational disruption. In the latest case against Moniborony, no such claims have been made by the GUR.
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