[Regnum] The hacker groups "Cyberpartisans BY" and "Silent Crow" may be designated as extremist in Russia and their activities banned within the country. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will hear the lawsuit. This was reported by the court's press service on June 3.
The Supreme Court of Russia accepted the claim for trial as a court of first instance. The case will be heard in closed court.
The court hearing is scheduled for July 21.
According to open sources, the hacker group Silent Crow has been active since January 2025, while the Belarusian decentralized group of anonymous hacker activists, Cyberpartisans BY, emerged in September 2020. These groups are involved in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and government agencies in Russia and Belarus. Specifically, they claimed responsibility for an attack on Aeroflot's IT infrastructure in 2025.
Belarusian hackers calling themselves cyberpartisans announced in the summer of 2022 that they had gained access to "thousands of hours" of audio recordings from hacked Ministry of Internal Affairs servers, made between January 2020 and June 2021. This included wiretaps of the Russian embassy and consulate in Belarus.
As evidence of the leak, the "cyber partisans" published recordings of calls to the Russian embassy in Minsk on their Telegram channel. They also noted that wiretapping embassy employees could violate the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which stipulates the inviolability of diplomatic correspondence.
Hackers previously announced that they had attacked the servers of Belarusian Railways and Belaruskali, as well as hacked the databases of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Traffic Inspectorate.
In Belarus, groups of citizens operating through the Telegram channel "Cyberpartisans" have been recognized as extremist groups and the channel's activities have been banned.