{"id":18333,"date":"2023-06-23T05:44:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:40:03","slug":"hacking-colonel-leonid-rusin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/hacking-colonel-leonid-rusin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Colonel Leonid Rusin, ex-commander of Russian AWACS unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian hacktivist team Cyber Resistance<\/a> in cooperation with volunteers of InformNapalm<\/a> international intelligence community conducted a CYBINT & OSINT operation to gain access to and analyze the e-mail correspondence of Russian Colonel Leonid Rusin. Until July 2022, Rusin was in command of the 610th Center for Combat Training and Retraining of Military Pilots (military unit 41520), Ivanovo city, Severny airfield. The A-50U airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft are based at this airfield. This Russian equivalent of AWACS is used by the Russian Federation to direct missile attacks on Ukraine. Since July 2022, he has been studying at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Army, apparently on the way to a promotion.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The starting point for this operation was a tipoff from our friends and partners of the OSINT Bees team, who published an OSINT study<\/a> indicating some personal data of Colonel Leonid Rusin and his wife Olga Rusina. The e-mail address rusinaon@mail.ru which appeared in their message served as an entry point for the hacking operation. The Cyber Resistance activists managed to get full access not only to Olga\u2019s email account, but also to the mail box of her husband rusinleo@mail.ru as well as mail boxes of Rusin’s inner circle, including the officers with whom he conducted official correspondence. This resulted in a massive leak of flight crew lists and photos of other Russian officers, subordinate to Rusin. in this article, we are making public only a part of the available information. However, the bulk of the obtained data is already being used in the interests of intelligence and is producing meaningful results.<\/p>\n

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Rusin Leonid Igorevich [Rus.: \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0438\u043d \u041b\u0435\u043e\u043d\u0438\u0434 \u0418\u0433\u043e\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447], born December 19, 1979, TIN 644004138190, Russian passport: #5303 827663.<\/p>\n

Hacking into the email correspondence of Colonel Rusin made it possible to authenticate his current residence address in Moscow, which did not appear in any public databases and other open sources, as well as his phone number:<\/p>\n

Moscow, 25 Vernadsky st., apt. 137. Phone number:\u00a0+789128431964<\/strong>.
\nThese data appear on the correspondence about receiving a book he needed to study at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

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This address also appears in the questionnaires filled out by Rusin’s wife.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The hack also yielded scanned copies of Rusin’s personal documents.<\/p>\n

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Rusin systematically reported on officers who violated the secrecy procedure in the unit. The funny thing is that he kept scanned copies of these reports in his personal mail box, which is also a violation of the secrecy procedure.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Interestingly, on September 17, 2022, Rusin was interrogated in the criminal case 12202000735000033 as a witness, where he changed his testimony, placing the blame on his subordinate officer.<\/p>\n

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Rusin’s account on the Russian state services web portal Gosuslugi shows traffic fines on an almost weekly basis.<\/p>\n

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Rusin’s hack made it possible to identify dozens more Russian military pilots, who diligently concealed their data and were very discreet on social networks.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For example, the crews of A-50U aircraft:<\/p>\n