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Rostelecom is Russia's largest state-controlled telecommunications operator, providing fixed-line, broadband, mobile and data-center services nationwide.
Belarusian Cyber Partisans say they took admin access to Moscow's health department network in 2023, including systems linked to other agencies. Solar, the Rostelecom unit that found the intrusion, puts the first trace a year later, so the two sides disagree on how long the attackers were inside.
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Security firm Solar says Belarusian Cyber Partisans were inside an unnamed Russian healthcare network from early 2024 until its discovery in December 2025. That network connects to numerous other providers, and Solar says the foothold gave the intruders a possible route into them.
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Russia's Finance Ministry paid some staff in digital rubles on Oct. 1, after 2025 budget trials worth nearly 16 million rubles. Payroll transfers are free on the central bank's platform through 2026, so the state carries the cost of moving its wages over.
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The group says it took documents, server configurations, passwords and staff communications from Russia's Central Election Commission and the contractors building Vybory, and Important Stories says it authenticated the files.
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Named telecoms and marketplaces begin taking the state's digital ruble on September 1, and a phased law makes acceptance compulsory by 2028, while paying with crypto stays illegal.
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Cloudflare and Google DoH/DoT endpoints are failing on Russian networks, but the largest public measurement found no protocol-wide block. That makes the breakage messier, not milder.
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