Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2022
The Anonymous hacker collective claims to have breached the Belarusian Railway’s data-processing network. The Anonymous collective announced that the internal network of Belarusian railways has been compromised, the group claims to have blocked all services and will deactivate them until Russian troops will leave the territory of Belarus. Purpose of attack – to disrupt the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2022
This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of Russia – Ukraine cyber dispute February 27 – Ukraine: Volunteer IT Army is going to hit tens of Russian targets from this list Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2022
The popular collective Anonymous declared war on Russia for the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine and announced a series of cyber attacks calling to action its members The Anonymous collective is calling to action against Russia following the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine. The famous groups of hackivists is also calling for action Russian citizens inviting them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Six years ago the Powerful Greek Army (PGA) appeared in the threat landscape. After a long breach the hacker collective is back. I have interviewed them in exclusive … enjoy it! Tell me about your hacker team, which is the motivation behind the attacks? We have many motivations and reasons. First of all, we started […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2021
Hackers are targeting printers of businesses around the world to print ‘anti-work’ slogans pushing workers to demand better pay. Multiple employees are sharing on Twitter and Reddit the images of anti-work messages sent to the printers of their organizations. The messages encourage workers to protect their rights and discuss their pay with coworkers and demand […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2021
Anonymous claims to have hacked the controversial web hosting provider Epik, known for allowing far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content. Anonymous hacktivist collective claims has claimed to have hacked the controversial web hosting provided Epik and stolen its data, including information of the clients of the company, as part of an operation codenamed EPIKFAIL. The hosting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2021
The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government. For the past three weeks, the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a heavy and sustained DDoS attack. The attack comes only a month after the waves of DDoS attacks targeting the alternative media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2021
Hackers have exposed personal and voter registration details of over 6.5 million Israeli voters, less than 24 hours before the election. A few hours before the election in Israel, hackers exposed the voter registration and personal details of millions of citizens. The source of the data seems to be the app Elector developed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2021
A group of hackers claimed to have compromised more than 150,000 surveillance cameras at banks, jails, schools, and prominent companies like Tesla and Equinox. A group of US hackers claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. The news was first reported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2020
Britain’s most senior cyber general declared that the UK has implemented an advanced offensive cyberwar capability that could destroy its enemies. Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, the UK’s strategic command chief, announced that that the UK has implemented an advanced offensive cyberwar capability that could potentially “degrade, disrupt and destroy” the critical infrastructure of its adversaries. […]
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