Russian internet provider Nodex said it was in the process of restoring its systems after a devastating cyber attack earlier this week that saw hackers compromise its network and wipe out its internal servers, causing an immediate and complete disruption to its Russian customers' internet connections.
According to data from networking giant CloudFlare, which monitors Internet trends and traffic, the Russian regional ISP's outage began late on January 6 and continues to show customers Internet traffic levels at 0%.
In a post Russian social networking site VK, Nodex confirmed the cyber attack. “The network is destroyed. We are raising it from the backup copy,” the post read, according to machine translation. The internet provider said there was no immediate timeline for its restoration.
Company imposed later The cyber attack by Ukrainian hackers, which it says caused a “complete failure” of its infrastructure, according to the translation.
A hacking group called Ukrainian Cyber Alliance claimed the cyber attack. Posting screenshots From key servers inside Nodex's network.
“Nodex, the Russian Internet provider in St. Petersburg, has been completely looted and deleted. Data has been extracted, while empty equipment without backups was left with them,” according to Group posts on Telegram. The screenshots show access to Nodex's internal network, including its virtual machines, its backups, and a system of other critical systems.
According to recordThe Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, which first reported the breach, is a group of pro-Ukrainian activists formed in 2016 and Targeted Russian entities After a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
As of Wednesday evening in St. Petersburg, Russia, where Nodex provides its Internet services, the company said its recovery work “continues.”