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Russian stuff blowing up: Hackers claim to lay waste to Russian airline Aeroflot's database [1]

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Date: 2025-07-28

Trump says he is reducing the 50-day deadline to a new arbitrary 10-12 days. Why didn’t he just say two weeks?

x 🇺🇸 “I’ll announce the 10–12 day deadline today or tomorrow—no point waiting if you already know the answers. It’ll mean sanctions, maybe secondary tariffs. I don’t want to do this to Russia. I love the people, but they’ve lost a million—Russians and Ukrainians. It’s a disaster, and it’s still going,”



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) July 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM

Kstovo is about 400 kilometers east of Moscow.

A Russian drone flew over Lithuania near the capital of Vilnius and a Russian ship violated Estonia’s waters.

x ⚡️ Update: Lithuania says stray drone possibly diverted by Ukraine, ‘no indications’ of deliberate provocation. A drone that entered Lithuanian airspace via Belarus on July 28 may have been previously veered off course by Ukrainian defenses, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene said.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) July 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM

Ukrainian and Belarusian hackers say they have laid waste to Russian airline Aeroflot’s database.

x Hackers have successfully attacked the digital infrastructure of Russia’s "Aeroflot." They claim to have inflicted significant damage on the airline and obtained 22 terabytes of data. Aeroflot itself reported the cancellation of 42 flights.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM

x /4. The airline's headquarters in Melkisarovo has had its electricity shut off — a likely attempt to prevent further access to compromised systems. Staff have been ordered not to use corporate email or internal devices. — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM

Reminds me of the Black Knight in the Monty Python sketch — tis but a scratch.😂

x There are reports that it might take several months to restore Aeroflot's systems. The company itself continues calling this a "glitch in the IT system".



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM

x Hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian Cyber Partisans BY claimed they spent a full year infiltrating the airline's network before destroying approximately 7,000 servers and stealing 22 terabytes of passenger data. — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM

Chaos erupted at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport as hundreds of frustrated Aeroflot passengers found themselves trapped in a digital nightmare. After waiting hours for flights that would never depart, travelers discovered they couldn’t even leave the airport easily—bottlenecks formed at exit passages, forcing people to stand in line just to get out of the building. Traffic jams clogged roads outside as passengers abandoned their travel plans en masse, with many unable to secure refunds since the airline’s systems were down and only call centers could process requests. According to Russian Telegram channel Baza, the scene resembled a mass evacuation as Aeroflot representatives urged people with canceled flights to simply go home rather than wait at the airport, leaving travelers stranded with no clear timeline for when normal operations might resume or whether their money could be recovered. …. The attack’s immediate impact was evident in Aeroflot’s operations. According to Baza’s source within the airline, employees could not access flight plans, contact crew members, or determine aircraft locations. One Aeroflot employee described the scene: “I came to work, but we can’t print flight plans, nobody knows anything. I can’t even find the crew number, can’t call the captain.”

Let me guess — the CEO’s password was PASSWORD, right?

x ‼️ Russia: “Hackers who hacked Aeroflot revealed that the company uses outdated Windows XP, and the CEO has not changed the password for three years” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/07/28/s...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM

If he really wants to commit suicide, he should lead the next meat wave assault by soldiers on crutches in Pokrovsk.

x 1/ Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's recent near-drowning in Bodrum is reportedly suspected to have been a suicide attempt. He is said to have slipped away from his bodyguards and entered the sea in a presumed one-way trip, but was saved by beach lifeguards. ⬇️



[image or embed] — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM

4/ "A source ... noted that it was not his numerous guards who saved Kadyrov, but strangers." According to the source, "Nobody thought that he would go anywhere at all, let alone go to the beach. And the guards "blinked." 5/ "He was alone in the water. And, apparently, this is not accidental. According to the prevailing version, Kadyrov was not going to return from the sea, but his plans were interfered with by the beach security." 6/ The source says that recent reports about Kadyrov's alleged "will" support this version of events. It's claimed that Kadyrov has asked for his ally Adam Delimkhanov to rule Chechnya until his own son Adam, currently 17, is old enough to take over. 7/ Kadyrov is widely reported to be seriously ill. According to VChK-OGPU, he "may recently be experiencing serious pain, he requires strong substances, he moves with difficulty, so he almost never appears in public."

Andrew Perpetua shared this item about a Ukrainian Stryker armored vehicle that withstood hit after hit from Russian drones thanks to its unique add-on armor.

He has Bluesky and Twitter accounts but he hasn’t shared this to Bluesky. So, if you want to see the post (he didn’t embed the video) you have to click here to go to twitter.

I was too busy to talk about this the other day, but there was a Russian video attacking a Ukrainian Stryker that ukraine turned into an invincible tank. This styrker ate every single goddamn drone russia sent at it without even taking a scratch. The armor plan was this: you take a styker, with the slat armor on top. On top of the slat armor you apply a thick layer of rubber. All over. Whole vehicle is now rubber. Then, take slat armor and put that over the rubber. It went stryker, slat, rubber, slat. This had to be the heaviest goddamn stryker to ever stryke. That little porker probably weighs as much as a goddamn abrams. But it ate drones like no tomorrow. The fat little fuck.

Something in Rostov done blowed up real good.

Another 1,000 lucky winners in Russia’s Lottery of Death and Destruction. Plus 4 tanks.

Coming soon: Graduate programs in Hysterical Propaganda and Advanced Nuclear Threats.

x Russian prestigious Higher School of Economics opens first master’s programme on circumventing sanctions A two-year program in Moscow, costing $6,000 per year, is designed to prepare students for work in state corporations navigating international restrictions.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/28/r...



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM

If someone had told you five years ago that this would be part of the future wave of military development, you’d have asked what they were smoking.

This post is another example of discipline by humiliation and degradation in the Russian army. I linked it instead of embedding it because it is not pretty — not at all.

WARNING: The linked video shows a naked Russian in a pit trying to cover himself with his hands while a bucket of piss is dumped on him.

Probably works better than a stick.

x Russian defense company KPB Polet has introduced the second version of its Spider anti-drone netting system, designed to target small UAVs. 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) July 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM

The Russian economy is like a defenestrated oligarch — it’s out the window but hasn’t hit the sidewalk yet.

x ‼️ Russian Agriculture Update: “Agricultural producers in Russia's two largest agricultural regions — Rostov Oblast and Krasnodar Krai — may lose 25% of their grain, corn and sunflower harvests due to drought” 🌻 www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/07/28/g...



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM

He spent about three years as a prisoner.

She said yes.

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