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Attackers have stolen SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and divulged Russian intelligence projects.
Russian media says that SyTech has been working with FSB since 2009, especially, they contributed to numerous projects for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum. The latest project is the development of Nalog-3 for the Main Scientific Innovation Implementation Center.
“According to the data received, the majority of non-public projects of Sytech were commissioned by military unit No. 71330, which allegedly is part of the 16th directorate of the FSB of Russia.” states the website CrimeRussia.” This unit is engaged in electronic intelligence, experts form the International Center for Defense and Security in Tallinn believe.”
Some of the research projects accessed by the hackers were for Russia’s intelligence service, including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic.
On July 13, a hacker group named 0v1ru$ hacked into SyTech’s Active Directory server then compromised the entire infrastructure of the company, including JIRA instance.
The hackers exfiltrated 7.5TB of data and disfigured the website of the company by publishing “yobaface.”
The hackers published images of the company’s servers on Twitter and also shared the data with another hacker crew known as Digital Revolution, that in 2018 breached the FSB contractorQuantum.
“Among the projects of Sytech there is the work on de-anonymization of users of the Tor-network, collection of information about Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn users, hidden collection of information on the Web, a system for substituting Internet traffic, through which certain users could be redirected to special sites when requested portals from the “black list.” continues CrimeRussia.
“Sytech was also supposed to explore the possibilities of developing a complex of penetration and covert use of resources of peer-to-peer and hybrid networks, network protocols Jabber, OpenFT and ED2K, which were used by darknet users and hackers.
