Hacktivism

Anonymous is working on a huge data dump that will blow Russia away

The Anonymous collective hacked the Russian construction company Rostproekt and announced a leak that will Blow Russia Away. 

Anonymous continues its offensive against Russia, the collective announced the hack of the Russian construction company Rostproekt and announced a leak that will blow Russia away.

Link to the stolen data from the company have been published on the leak site DDoSecrets.

The hacktivists have leaked 2.4 gigabytes of emails allegedly stolen from the Russian construction company. Anonymous also hacked MashOiL and leaked the data through DDoSecrets. The dump includes nearly 140,000 emails from MashOil, which designs, manufactures and maintains equipment used in the drilling, mining and fracking industries.

Anonymous claims that it is currently working on another data leak that could have a devastating impact on the Russian government.

Anonymous has promised upcoming glamorous dumps, it also launched a new site, Anonymousleaks, to host future leaks.

“International Business Times had the opportunity to talk to Anonymous, and when we pried on the content of the leaked emails, the collective hinted that “one guy did say he might’ve found malware sent to FSB agents.”” reported International Business Times.

The “huge” data dump announced by the group will be available “within the next 1-2 weeks.” The group claims to have exfiltrated 1.22 terabytes from the target.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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