GRU attack Islam Channel in UK

July-August 2015

Several small UK-TV stations were hit with email attacks[i]

In a suburb of London, a television station that reaches into Europe, Africa and Asia, was seized by hackers. The Ilford based station, started in 2004 by Tunisian-born activist Mohamed Ali Harrath, was under attack by the GRU officers attacked The Islam Channel in UK[ii] They seized complete control over their networks. It took five months to take the network back. They learned of the network compromise by government officials out of “Home Office”.

[i] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-exposes-russian-cyber-attacks

[ii] Bond, David, Financial Times, “GRU took ‘complete control’ of UK based TV station in 2015”, October 5, 2018, https://www.ft.com/content/c35aaea2-c8b5-11e8-ba8f-ee390057b8c9