VULKAN LEAKS: The Secret Weapons of Modern Warriors I frontal

On the first day of the Ukraine war, tens of thousands of modems of the satellite operator Viasat fail across Europe - a cyber attack by Russia. Here in Germany, too, this attack had consequences: Almost 6000 wind turbines were suddenly offline. Internal documents from the Russian company Vulkan now provide exclusive insight into Putin's digital arsenal. The leak contains more than 5,000 pages of technical instructions, hundreds of e-mails and transfer data from the software company, which operates in secret. Its clientele also includes the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
Our joint research with "Der Spiegel", "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and other media proves how the Moscow-based company Vulkan has been cooperating with Russian intelligence services for years and developing digital weapons on their behalf. Several Western intelligence services are alarmed. One service tells us, "Companies like Vulkan enable the GRU military intelligence agency to conduct its cyber operations. Programs like "Skan-W" are definitely intended for offensive purposes (...). The Vulkan documents are a rare find and help to understand what the GRU is up to."
#VulkanFiles is a research by ZDF in cooperation with DR, Guardian, istories, Le Monde, paper trail media, Der Spiegel, Standard, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tamedia and Washington Post.
[This text was translated with AI.]
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Chapter:
00:00 Intro
xx:xx The data leak
xx:xx How vulnerable is our society to cyberattacks?
xx:xx Is Ukraine a guinea pig for cyberattacks?
xx:xx The "Sandworm" Unit: Hackers alongside the GRU military intelligence agency.
xx:xx This is what happens when a hacker attack gets out of control
xx:xx Who are the cyber warriors of NTC Vulcan?
xx:xx Outro
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Authors: Joachim Bartz, Ulrich Stoll
Research: Sophia Baumann, Christo Buschek, Maria Christoph, Max Hoppenstedt, Carina Huppertz, Dajana Kollig, Hannes Munzinger, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Marcel Rosenbach, Hakan Tanriverdi
Editing: Martin Menzel, Marcus Dippner
Camera: Achim Rogge, Frank Vieltorf
Narrator: Nina West
Art Director, Graphics: Nicolas de Leval Jezierski
Graphics: Regina Schelbert, Malte Paetz
Team Cine Impuls Leipzig: Sabrina Goldack, Lisa Goldberg, Dirk Nebel, Pia Schindler, Marie-Louise Stoll
Head of Social Media Cine Impuls Leipzig: Veronika Prütz
CvD Cine Impuls Leipzig: Rita Kundt
Producer Cine Impuls Leipzig: Anke Kossira
CvD frontal ZDF: Kyo Mali Jung, Christian Rohde
Editorial department frontal ZDF: Karin Schilling
Head of Content frontal ZDF: Kyo Mali Jung