Ukrainian hackers down Moscow’s subway payment system

The Ukrainian IT army has attacked several Russian portals, including the Troika fare payment system that serves Moscow metro passengers.

Transport card holders in Moscow and Kazan could not pay for tickets, replenish their travel cards, or pay for parking.

"The cyber army attacked a number of government and local portals, including the Troika fare payment system. This is one of the largest ticketing systems in Russia, serving 38 regions," Ukraine's digital ministry reported.

The IT Army of Ukraine, known as a community of enthusiastic hackers and cyber specialists, prepared for the operation for a month.

"A number of government and local portals were also targeted. The collateral damage has been even greater than we expected, and we are already seeing damage to some government networks and related providers, as well as the parking system."

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Ukrainian IT has been attacking the websites of central Russian banks and state institutions. The websites of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Roskomnadzor, and Rosaviatsia have stopped working. Large and state-owned (propaganda) mass media also stopped working due to hacker attacks.

The Ukrainian IT army recently paralyzed the work of the Russian enterprise management system 1C-Rarus.

It was also reported that the Ukrainian IT Army hacked the Russian cloud service Bitrix24, which is used by the largest sponsoring companies of Russia's war against Ukraine, including the Rosneft corporation.

Disruptions in the operation of "Bitrix24" services occurred in several Russian cities, in particular, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, as well as in the capital of Belarus, Minsk.

The cyber units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence attacked the Russian tax system and managed to destroy the entire database and its backup copies: from now on, the Russian Federation will not be able to resuscitate its institution fully.