The head of the Azerbaijani Parliament Committee says to the parliamentarians that Kiberataka for a number of Azerbaijani media resources, which were committed on February 20, 2025, is the chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliament Committee to counter external interference and hybrid threats of Ramid Namzouf.
During discussions on “electronic attacks on the resources of Azerbaijan media”, on May 2, Namazov said that “the attack was carried out at a high technical level of the Apt29 CybersPic group (” “comfortable bear”, also known as “Midnight Blizzard” and “The Dukes”), related to Russian structures. “
This group writes, “specialized in electronic currencies of particular importance, including against government institutions, diplomatic missions, the energy sector, defense and the media.”
According to Namazov, “This contradicts the provisions of the declaration of the interaction allied between Azerbaijan and Russia, as well as the spirit of bilateral relations.”
As a motive, he called the Russian house in Baku, and to discuss the liquidation of the representative office of Russia today in Azerbaijan.
“Because of these operations, which have indirect political motives, this cyberspace has occurred.” – Azerbaijani deputy said.
Because electronic attacks are equal to military attacks, the relevant authorities in Azerbaijan must discuss this issue with Russia, according to the deputy of Miley Majlis, in turn. Rasim Musabekov. Namazov supported the suggestion of Musabikov.
“The relevant authorities are involved in this, and negotiations are ongoing with the Russian side. Such steps contradict our relationship,” He said.
Global Media Group Orhan Mamov He said that on February 20, a dangerous and large electronic attack was carried out widely on Media Media Group Global resources.
“The attack was first aimed at Baku’s internal interior servers, and then spread to the leading news gates in the country, such as the report, Oxo.” He complained.
Accordingly, the servers were reliable at the time, but “infiltrators were able to penetrate protection using unknown methods, which once again showed a high level of their preparation.”
He said it was decided to change the entire server infrastructure.
“Parallel, we started cooperation on a continuous basis with international cybersecurity companies and the updated network equipment. This incident once again proved that information security, especially in the field of media, is not just a technical problem, but also an important part of the state’s security. It is necessary to constantly invest in this and take preventive measures in this direction.” – Mamov said.
