Hacktivists on the Ukrainian side have targeted a portal that is critical for the distribution of alcoholic beverages in Russia with DDoS attacks.
DDoS (distributed denial of service) assaults are coordinated efforts to overload servers with junk traffic and fake requests, preventing them from serving legitimate visitors.
Several vodka makers and distributors allege they are unable to access the EGAIS (C) portal as required by government laws, according to numerous Russian media agencies.
As a result, the transportation and distribution of alcoholic beverages to retail outlets has deteriorated significantly in recent days, raising the likelihood of genuine shelf shortages.
“Due to a large-scale malfunction, factories cannot take tanks containing alcohol, and consumers, stores, and distributors cannot receive finished items that have already been given to them,” a source in the field told Vedomosti.
Many manufacturers yesterday opted to totally suspend shipments to warehouses and, as a result, reduce their production rate, owing to an overabundance of products that have yet to be delivered.
EGAIS is listed in Ukraine’s IT Army
The EGAIS portal is still unavailable at the time of writing, so we can only presume that the DDoS attack is still happening.
The related websites are identified as targets on Ukraine’s IT Army Telegram channel, so there’s a fair likelihood they’re behind these attacks, according to Bleeping Computer.
The Telegram posts are intended to aid in the coordination of DDoS attacks that are performed by lone actors using tools like the Liberator.
Ukraine’s IT Army is a unique form of cyber-force that brings together volunteers from all over the world with the purpose of executing retaliation cyberattacks against important Russian targets.
Ukraine’s government declared the formation of this otherwise unlawful task force in February 2022, and it has been engaged on the cyber front line since then.
This isn’t the first time an attack has been launched against Russia’s domestic product supply lines, with the goal of causing disruption and possibly even shortages.
Miratorg, a Moscow-based meat manufacturer and distributor, announced in March that its IT systems had been encrypted in an attempt to destroy its operations.
Another governmental information system, VetIS, which is used by veterinary enterprises, was the site of compromise.
