Internal pass system for employees of the Belarusian Telegraph Agency
The propagandists of the Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA) harm the Belarusan people on a par with the punishers from Lukashenka’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and special services. All the years of dictatorship they poison the minds of Belarusians with lies and manipulations to please the tyrant. For this we strike a blow to BelTA’s computer network, paralyze the work of pro-government propaganda websites and destroy backups.
The internal network and major websites are compromised.
Domain controllers compromised.
90GB of data (internal documents, accounting, personal data of employees) has been downloaded. The rest is propaganda garbage, it is necessary not to pump out, but to burn.
Wiped out all accounting, workstations, archives, backups, website servers.
Details of the hack
We launched the cyberattack on December 29. The date was specifically chosen so that the propagandists’ New Year’s holidays were “successful”. The attack started right in the morning, when the employees had just arrived at the BelTA office and turned on their computers.
As one Cyberpartisan shares:
Let the accomplices of the dictatorship have no holidays until they return the country to the people.
And we also wanted to please the honorable Belarusians, so that at least on New Year’s Eve they would have fun, there would be a good reason to celebrate the holiday and drink champagne.
Usually an attack on the internal network of an organization is developed from several weeks to months. But, according to our information, someone had tried to encrypt Belta’s network before, only they didn’t follow through. We knew that the “holes” in the network had not been fixed since then, so we decided to take advantage of it.
BelTA employees do not observe even the minimum rules of computer security and information hygiene. For example, they used pirated software and systems. Therefore, they easily picked up our “cyber bombs” and suffered heavy losses.
As one of the participants in the attack shares:
“When the admins were fussing and trying to put out the ‘fires’, we quietly watched them and continued to mash the servers and interfere with their work.
Now, according to our information, work in BelTA is virtually paralyzed. Employees are forced to try to perform tasks from their home computers. The working equipment refuses to work as it should. Many people have no access to mail and their usual work chats.
We believe that Lukashenka’s propagandists fully deserve it for years of lies, manipulations, and filth against free-thinking Belarusians. They deliberately condone harsh political censorship and repression, including against independent media: seizure of TUT.BY domains, squeezing out of the country the freedom of speech, arrests on political grounds, etc., etc.
By the way, our superiors forbade BelTA employees to talk about our cyberattack.
We won’t be surprised if they will deny everything, as usual, as the usual habit of the regime’s arrogant accomplices. But you all know what happens in such cases.
Source: a2day