In Hungary they knew about Russia's cyber attack on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Collage 24 Channel< p _ngcontent-sc139 class="news-annotation">According to information from the Hungarian media, the Hungarian authorities were aware of a cyber attack 2 years ago on the Foreign Ministry. It was probably organized by Russian hackers, although this information was denied at the time. Recently, journalists received documents that prove that more than 2 years ago a large-scale hacker attack was carried out at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry. According to preliminary information, very valuable information could have fallen into their hands. In March 2022, a large-scale cyber attack was carried out on the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, however, several politicians from the ruling party denied this incident. Recently, the media came into possession of documents that prove that there was an attack on the department and that they were aware of it.
Fragment of a document that appeared in the media/Photo 444.hu By media information, back in September 2021, the chief head of the National Security Service, who was responsible for the technical security of other departments, handed over a report assessing the state of the digital infrastructure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It talked about that email, servers and at least some of the devices that were involved in user identification processes were compromised. In particular, administrator accounts with the highest level of access. From the technical description it turns out that hackers could see letters, files, personal data of Foreign Ministry employees and much other information. The author of the report also indicated that the cyber attack could be associated with the ART 28 groups, which are associated with the Russian GRU, and ART 29, which is associated with the FSB. Not so long ago Journalists again asked Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto about the cyber attack two years ago, to which he first replied that he knew nothing about this situation. However, the journalists then told him that they had the report, and then Szijjártó expressed confidence that the competent authorities had done everything necessary to eliminate the threat. The head of the department also questioned whether the media managed to obtain the document through legal means. According to the journalists, they checked their sources and the authenticity of the document and found out that it was not subject to legislation on the protection of classified documents. < p>Ukrainian hackers managed to launch a large-scale cyber attack on the data center of the Russian military-industrial complex. Sources in the Ukrainian intelligence services said that more than 10 thousand legal entities from Russia kept their data in the cloud service OwenCloud.ru. In particular, among them were enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, oil and gas , metallurgical, aerospace complexes, as well as telecommunications giants. “Among them: Ural Civil Aviation Plant, NPP RUBIN (part of the Ruselectronics holding “), “Ural Special Equipment Plant”, Gazprom, Transgaz, Lukoil, Rosneft, Norilsk Nickel, Rostelecom, Telecom, Megafon,” the sources explained. It is reported that that this was a joint operation of the Ukrainian hacker group “BLACKJACK” with the cyber department of the SBU. They managed to dispose of more than 300 terabytes of data.In Hungary they lied when they called the attack on the Foreign Ministry a fabrication
Ukrainian hackers destroyed the data center of the Russian military-industrial complex
The Hungarian government knew about the Russian cyber attack on the Foreign Ministry, which they called a hoax – media
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