Hacktivism

Anonymous targets oligarchs’ Russian businesses: Marathon Group hacked

Anonymous continues its operations against Russia, the group announced the hack of the Russian investment firm Marathon Group.

Anonymous continues to target Russian firms owned by oligarchs, yesterday the collective announced the hack of the Thozis Corp, while today the group claimed the hack of Marathon Group.

The Marathon Group is a Russian investment firm owned by oligarch Alexander Vinokuro, who was sanctioned by the EU. Vinokurov is the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

The group breached the systems of the company and released 62,000 emails (a 52GB archive) through DDoSecrets.

Anonymous also claimed the hack of a website of the Government of Belarus related to the Economy of Volozhin, a Belarusian city in the Minsk region.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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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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