The source later shared the data and further information with the Munich-based investigative startup Paper Trail Media. I hope you can use this information to show what is happening behind closed doors.” I am angry about the invasion of Ukraine and the terrible things that are happening there. The company is doing bad things and the Russian government is cowardly and wrong. “Because of the events in Ukraine, I decided to make this information public.

“People should know the dangers of this,” the whistleblower said. Days after the invasion in February last year, the source approached the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and said the GRU and FSB “hide behind” Vulkan. Such leaks from Moscow are extremely rare. The Vulkan files, which date from 2016 to 2021, were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower angered by Russia’s war in Ukraine. A file explaining the software states: “The level of secrecy of processed and stored information in the product is ‘Top Secret’.” A third Vulkan-built system – Crystal-2V – is a training program for cyber-operatives in the methods required to bring down rail, air and sea infrastructure.

Codenamed Scan-V, it scours the internet for vulnerabilities, which are then stored for use in future cyber-attacks.Īnother system, known as Amezit, amounts to a blueprint for surveilling and controlling the internet in regions under Russia’s command, and also enables disinformation via fake social media profiles. One document links a Vulkan cyber-attack tool with the notorious hacking group Sandworm, which the US government said twice caused blackouts in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympics in South Korea and launched NotPetya, the most economically destructive malware in history. A diagram showing a Vulkan hacking reconnaissance system codenamed Scan, developed since 2018.

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