Cyber warfare

Ukraine IT Army hit EGAIS portal impacting Russia’s alcohol distribution

Ukraine IT Army launched massive DDoS attacks on the EGAIS portal that has a crucial role in Russia’s alcohol distribution.

The collective of hacktivists Ukraine IT Army has launched a series of massive DDoS attacks on the Unified State Automated Alcohol Accounting Information System (EGAIS) portal, which is considered crucial for alcohol distribution in Russia.

“Producers and distributors of alcohol for the first May holidays could not ship products to their customers due to a large-scale failure in the operation of the Unified State Automated Alcohol Accounting Information System (EGAIS). This was reported to Vedomosti by four participants in this market, a representative of a large retailer and an employee of a specialized association.” reported Vedomosti “Apparently, we are talking about DDoS attacks.”

Alcohol producers and distributors were not able to ship products due to the unavailability of EGAIS system, and retail points warned of possible shortages due to the current situation.

The attacks on the EGAIS websites took place on May 2 and 3 and failures were reported on 4, a call to action to attack the site was shared within the community of IT Army of Ukraine.

Due to the effects of the attack, factories cannot accept tanks with alcohol, and customers (both stores and distributors) were not able to receive finished products that have already been delivered to them,

Many factories halted shipments to warehouses completely and subsequently cut their production rate.

At the time of writing this, the EGAIS portal is still unreachable.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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