Websites of Russian airlines subjected to DDoS attacks

The websites of Rossiya, Aurora, Alrosa, Yamal, NordStar and Smartavia were attacked.Yakutia website not opening

The websites of the Russian airlines Rossiya, Aurora and Alrosa were subjected to a DDoS attack, representatives of air carriers told RBC. RBC's source in NordStar and an interlocutor close to Yamal Airlines also spoke about cyber attacks on the websites of these carriers. At the time of writing, they were not open.

As the representative of Rossiya later explained, it was not the airline itself that was hacked, but the provider that provides Internet services. “Specialists of the airline and the service provider are working to rectify the situation,” added the representative of Rossiya. Now the airline's website is open, but it's slow. 

Smartavia reported that its website is unavailable. “The flysmartavia.com website is currently unavailable due to technical reasons,” the carrier said on its Telegram channel. Aurora's message also states that its website is unavailable "for technical reasons."

The site of Yakutia Airlines also does not open.

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RBC sent requests to the press services of Yamal, Yakutia, NordStar and Smartavia

At the same time, the websites of Pobeda, Aeroflot, Utair and Ural Airlines are working.

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At the end of March, RBC, citing a telegram from the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, wrote that the department had switched to paper workflow due to a cyber attack. This happened due to "a temporary lack of access to the Internet and a failure in the electronic document management system of Rosaviatsia," the document said. Later, RBC sources said that the Prosecutor General's Office began checking the activities of the Federal Air Transport Agency related to the operation of the IT infrastructure.