Russia’s Supreme Court declares two groups behind Aeroflot hack ‘extremist organizations’
Russia’s Supreme Court has designated the hacker groups “Cyber Partisans BY” and Silent Crow as “extremist organizations,” acting on a request from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
“Cyber Partisans BY,” according to Russia’s Supreme Court as cited by the Russian state news agency TASS, is part of the Belarusian “informal organization ‘Supraciw’ (‘Resistance’),” whose primary goal is “the forcible change of the constitutional order” of Belarus.
Russia’s Supreme Court press service described Silent Crow as “a pro-Ukrainian association of anonymous, politically motivated hacker-activists.”
The two groups work closely together “to destabilize the political and social situation” with the aim of changing the governments of Russia and Belarus “by unconstitutional means,” the court said.
The Ukrainian group Silent Crow and the Belarusian “Cyber Partisans” are known for several high-profile hacks, including the 2025 breaches of Rosreestr and the Russian state telecommunications company Rostelecom, as well as a cyberattack that knocked out the information systems of the Russian state airline Aeroflot and caused a collapse at Sheremetyevo Airport.
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