Something Horrible is Happening in Russia: Flights Grounded. Major Airlines Hacked - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

Russia’s aviation pride has just been shattered. Aeroflot, the flagship airline that the Kremlin parades as a symbol of modern power, was brought to its knees by an unprecedented cyberattack. Flights grounded, more than a hundred cancellations, chaos in airports, and thousands of stranded passengers exposed just how fragile Russia’s infrastructure really is. This wasn’t a glitch or a ransomware scheme—it was sabotage. A Belarusian hacker collective infiltrated Aeroflot’s systems for over a year, dismantling crew databases, flight planning networks, and even executive communications, leaving the airline paralyzed.

The attack revealed the hollow reality behind Russia’s propaganda: outdated IT systems, corruption, and incompetence that no amount of state-controlled media can hide. Ordinary Russians felt the war at home as their travel plans collapsed, realizing their government can’t protect them from hackers, let alone missiles or sanctions. This cyber strike wasn’t about money—it was about revenge, humiliation, and exposing Putin’s regime as powerless against modern warfare carried out with code instead of bombs. Aeroflot’s meltdown is a warning of what’s to come: banks, power grids, and defense plants are all vulnerable, and Russia cannot stop the next wave.

[Duppers]

1. WOW!

[Ilsa]

2. Doesn't Putin have PM of Belarus in his pocket?

I hope the hacker is far away in a secret underground.

[swong19104]

3. Chances are

The aeroflot system is the same as the rest of the world’s, some outdated DOS 3.1 program running on top of emulators. The whole world needs to agree to a universal updated standard for all airline related applications.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Our national security is most likely the worst it's ever been thanks to the regime.

You are precisely correct in your prudent recommendation. Thank you for sharing this.

❤️

[Wonder Why]

6. "outdated DOS 3.1 program running on top of emulators" aka Windows 11.

[Bev54]

5. So pleased to see karma biting more ass this week!

[Wonder Why]

7. American companies' systems are not a lot better. Allowing every employee to log into the company system from home

was not born of the Covid issue or the work-at-home advantage for employees. It was born of the idea that you are paid a salary and the company owns you 24/7 so when they need you (a lot more than you want), they can make you do a lot more work at home on your time. Now you can work all day in the office developing the new software then spending half the night fixing the bugs from home because they pushed it out the door before it was ready.

This is not new. It happened to me 40 years ago. it accelerated during Y2K. It's prevalent now. My son quit his company in January after 23 years because they constantly did that. Now he works for a small one that recognizes that there are problems so they stretch out the timeline instead of making your job all day at the office and all night at home.

Security is far more difficult when you open the doors 24/7 and anyone with anything that looks like a pass (i.e. every hacker who can break your terrible security) can walk in and do anything. Add to that, when time-to-market becomes Job 1 and quality and security are just considered money wasters), you get what you pay for.