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Hackers using the name 0v1ru$ breached SyTech and left a smiley 'Yoba' face (pictured) on the company's homepageHackers have reportedly unearthed Russian intelligence plans to split its internet from the rest of the world, 'scrape' social media and de-anonymise the Tor browser. A major contractor with the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) had 7.5 terabytes of data stolen and distributed to media outlets for publishing, according to reports. Hackers using the name 0v1ru$ breached Moscow IT company SyTech, who work with the FSB on internet projects, and left a smiley 'Yoba' face on the company's homepage, along with pictures that revealed the supposed breach on July 13, revealed. The data was passed to hacking group Digital Revolution, who sent the files on to media outlets and taunted the FSB, it was claimed. The breach was described as possibly the largest data leak in the history of Russian intelligence services, which included details of projects such as social media 'scraping' - extracting data from sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn - and the 'de-anonymisation' of users of the Tor browser, it was said.Tor is used to bypass restrictions and hide data, and is notoriously used to access the so-called 'dark web'. ![]()
The data was passed to hacking group Digital Revolution, who sent the files on to media outlets and чекните профиль taunted the FSB, it was claimed0v1ru$ exposed the names of SyTech project managers and detailed project names 'Arion', 'Relation', and 'Hryvnia', but no actual state secrets were revealed, the BBC reported. RELATED ARTICLES
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The projects reportedly involve harvesting data from social media and Russian enterprises, along with projects relating to Russia's plans to construct its own internal internet. It was said that SyTech's projects were largely contracted with Military Unit 71330, a subset of the FSB's 16th Directorate, who handle signals intelligence. ![]()
The Federal Security Service is overseen by President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir PutinThe FSB is described as a 'federal executive body with the authority to implement government policy in the national security of the Russian Federation, counterterrorism, the protection and defence of the state border of the Russian Federation'.It also purports to protect ensure 'the information security of Russia' and exercise 'the basic functions of the federal security services specified in the Russian legislation, as well as coordinating the counterintelligence efforts of the federal executive bodies that have the power to do so'.It is overseen by President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
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