Hacktivism

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2017
Experts tracked a German hacker behind the spreading of Houdini Worm on Pastebin

Security experts at Recorded Future tracked a German hacker for the propagation of the Houdini worm through Pastebin sites. A German hacker that goes online with the moniker Vicswors Baghdad is the responsible for the propagation of the Houdini malware on Pastebin sites. According to the expert at Recorded Future, the same threat actor appears to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
Macron campaign suffered a huge hacking attack 48 hours before French vote

The campaign of the Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been targeted once again by hackers that leaked a 9GB dump of stolen data from its staff. Information warfare and politics are even more strictly correlated. It has happened again, after the DNC hack, hackers have targeted also French presidential elections. The target of the hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2017
Turkey vs Holland – Hackers broke into Twitter CounterApp to hijack hundreds of High-Profile Accounts

Turkey vs Holland – Hackers launched a massive hacking campaign that hijacked hundreds of High-Profile Accounts to spread political messages against Holland. A huge number of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hijacked following the recent diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands. The hackers posted through many Twitter accounts political messages in the Turkish language including a link […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2017
Operation Kingphish: Cyber Attacks against human rights activists in Qatar and Nepal

Amnesty International has recently uncovered a spear phishing campaign dubbed Operation Kingphish that targeted groups in Qatar and Nepal. Human rights organizations and journalists continue to be a privileged target of phishing campaigns that attempt to steal the Google credentials of the victims. The malicious messages try to lure victims into viewing documents online. Amnesty […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2017
ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, who is attacking us, and how?

ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is an EU Agency composed of security experts that work with these states, public organizations and private groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2017
Anonymous hacked Freedom Hosting II, a fifth of the Dark Web is down

The group of hacktivists Anonymous hacked the popular Freedom Hosting II Dark Web hosting provider, a fifth of the .onion websites is down. The collective Anonymous is back, this time the hacker groups breached Freedom Hosting II, a popular Dark Web hosting provider. After the closure of the original Freedom Hosting, Freedom Hosting II (FHII) become […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2017
Anonymous promises war on Trump, and only line experts say how to hack his mobile

Anonymous declared war to US President-elect Donald Trump, hackers are threatening to expose his alleged affairs with Russians. Anonymous declared war to US President-elect Donald Trump, recently the collective threatened to expose his “financial and personal ties with Russian mobsters.” The group is claiming to have inside information on some of Trump’s dirty affairs with Russians, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2017
Ransomware shutdown 70% of Washington DC CCTV ahead of President’s inauguration

A Ransomware attack compromised 70% of Washington DC CCTV ahead of inauguration of President Trump, technical staff wiped and rebooted the devices. A ransomware infected 70 percent of storage devices used by the Washington DC CCTV systems just eight days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The attack occurred between 12 and 15 January, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2017
Hacker Interviews – @Docksing

Today I interview the notorious black hat hacker @Docksing, he is an authentic star of the hacking underground. Enjoy it! You are a popular talented hacker that has already participated in several hacking campaigns, could you tell me more about. It wouldn’t be smart to answer that, but if I were to participate, I wouldn’t put […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2016
#OpSingleGateway – Gh0s7 hacked Thai Government website in response to the recent arrests

#OpSingleGateway – The hacker Gh0s7 hacked the Thailand’s National Statistical Office (http://nso.go.th) in response to the recent arrests operated by the Government. The hacker Gh0s7 broke into the database of the Thailand’s National Statistical Office (http://nso.go.th ) and leaked data through the Mega service at the following URL https://mega.nz/#!F8o0kCLb!8C30-rqQip7cvKhf-af3xwNX6PXO6KGN9wDEon5XqEs The hacker acted alone, he decides to hack into a […]