Ukrainian Hackers Claim To Have Destroyed Major Russian Drone Maker's Entire Network (theregister.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/2350256/ukrainian-hackers-claim-to-have-destroyed-major-russian-drone-makers-entire-network
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/16/ukrainian_drone_attack/?td=rt-3a
> BO Team (also known as Black Owl) [2]announced the breach on its Telegram channel, and claimed to have carried out the operation alongside fellow hackers the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance "and one very well-known organization, the mention of which makes Vanya's bottle receivers explode," according to a Google translation of the Russian text. While the "very well-known organization" isn't named, BO Team included a [3]link to Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.
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> The military intelligence agency, working alongside the attackers, "carried out large-scale work to capture the entire network and server infrastructure of Gaskar Group, collect valuable information about the UAVs being produced and prospective, and then destroy the information and disable this infrastructure," the Telegram post continued. This reportedly included 47TB of technical information about the production of Russian drones, and BO Team claims to have destroyed all of the information on Gaskar's servers, including 10TB of backup files. "By the way, from the information we received, China is providing assistance in the production and training of specialists of Gaskar Group," the hackers added via Telegram. BO Team also posted what they claim to be confidential employee questionnaires
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> On their own Telegram channel, the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance said they also stole "all the source code" before destroying everything. "The network went down so thoroughly that the doors in the building were blocked," the pro-Ukraine crew wrote, per Google translate. "To open them, the administration had to turn on the fire alarm. Most likely, the defense order is on the verge of failure, and thousands of drones will not get to the front in the near future."
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/16/ukrainian_drone_attack/?td=rt-3a
[2] https://t.me/BO_Team_UA/568
[3] https://gur.gov.ua/en.html
[4] https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/07/16/gaskar_integration_employee_survey.pdf
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> Wonder how possible it would be to hack the drones to turn against them. I know that both sides like to keep their best drone pilots back from the front line and use a link to the actual drone deployment point. Imagine if they could turn around 500 or 1000 drones to attack the owners all at once.
The current state of the art drones in the ware are using a trailing fiber optic link with direct control (so limited ability to remotely hack the drones).
Uh oh...just wait (Score:1)
Wait until they figure out how to hack drones that are enroute to destroy "bad guy A" and make them turn around and hit the places where they originally came from!
All your base^H^H^H^Hdrones ... (Score:2)
... are belong to us
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Somebody set up us the bomb.
Uh oh (Score:2)
Sounds like we should expect news about yet another senior Russian official "committing suicide" soon... or accidentally falling out a window.
Calling it "denazification" makes no sense (Score:3)
Calling it "denazification" makes no sense. The Russians are fiercely anti-Nazi. In fact one of their justifications for invading Ukraine was "denazification". Here, from NBC news: [1]https://www.nbcnews.com/think/... [nbcnews.com] "Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't"
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946
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I think Russia started the Nazi talk and Ukraine is bouncing it back at them - because as you said it's the biggest insult they could hurl at each other. They are justly proud of the high price paid to defeat Hitler. But it also turns into propaganda.
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The test as to who is a "NAZI" I think comes down to one thing: Who invaded who? Who is crossing the international border into another peoples Country? Pro-Russian people (MAGA's) insist that Ukraine invaded Russia somehow. I saw it with my own eyes, on the news, at the time, Russia most certainly invaded Ukraine. The gaslighting and lies on this is overwhelming.
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In fact one of their justifications for invading Ukraine was "denazification".
So you're a Putin-Dicksucking little bitch who's too fucking stupid to understand that Putin the Nazi Shitbag's "denazification" claims were a smokescreen. Fucking kill yourself you disgusting Putin-Dicksucking Genocidal Little Nazi Bitch.
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Hitler wasn't exactly a fan of any Slavic people so pretty much all of Eastern Europe is fiercely anti-Nazi if that's what we are calling Russia still, including Ukraine who lost like 8 million themselves in WWII.
Cyber warfare (Score:2)
So far I think Cyber Warfare has not been as important as many thought it would be. And these two countries are both good at it. Signal jamming is widespread, but "hacking" per se doesn't seem to have had a huge impact. I would guess this factory will be making drones within a couple weeks, or a small number even sooner for symbolic effect.
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if the destruction is what they claim to be, that is. so they pwn a drone factory, acces 47tb of data, including sensible communications, steal "all the source" and all they show is a couple of totally uninteresting job application forms from 2023 that don't even have the company name on them? mkay ...
i guess cyberwar operations are indeed at play, but both sides will want to be very discreet and we don't get to know about them. this is probably just a group bragging for lulz, or propaganda, or both.
Bottle receivers... (Score:2)
Just for your information, "bottle receivers" here means butts. This references the tradition of russian police to sit people they do not like on empty bottles to make them uncomfortable.
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Intriguing titbit, I'll try and avoid getting arrested by Russian police anytime soon :)
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Also cute to say "denazification" since that is one of the potpourri of justifications the Kremlin has used for the war.
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It was a bizarely hypocritical claim from the Kremlin since their previouslty favorite mercenary group was literally run by a neo-nazi. And pretty much any military anywhere in the world is going to have members of pretty much any political affiliation you could imagine, so yeah, that was a stupid accusation.