Hacktivism

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2016
WauchulaGhost targets ISIS Twitter Accounts and floods them with porn images

WauchulaGhost Hacker groups linked to Anonymous hijack ISIS supporters’ Twitter accounts and flood their profiles with PORN picture and irreverent messages. Anonymous is continuing its online battle against the ISIS propaganda machine, this time, Twitter accounts managed by the terrorist organization have been flooded with a large number of pornographic posts. It seems that the attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2016
GhostShell is back and leaked 36 million records

GhostShell is back and leaked 36 million records from vulnerable networks to invite experts to pay attention to the new MEAN Stack. GhostShell is back and once again to warn us about the poor security posture of many services, this time, he announced to have leaked 36 million accounts/records. The hacker is inviting experts to pay attention to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Speaking with GhostShell

GhostShell is back and I had the opportunity to interview him. It is important to understand the thoughts and opinion of talented minds like GhostShell. Yesterday I reported the news of the return of one of the  most popular hacker, Ghost Shell who exposed data from 32 companies and  launched a new campaign to punish […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
GhostShell is back and exposed data from 32 companies hacked through Open FTP

GhostShell is back, it exposed data from 32 companies and  launched a new campaign to punish negligent network administrators. The popular hacker crew GhostShell is back and is launching a new campaign to sensitize administrators to the importance of a proper security posture, but he’s doing it in his own way. GhostShell is a group of hacktivists most […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016
OpIcarus: Anonymous crusade against the sick banking industry

Anonymous alongside with BannedOffline and Ghost Squad crews are resuming the OpIcarus targeting banking websites around the world. Hackers of the Anonymous collective alongside with Ghost Squad and BannedOffline continued their attacks on the banks worldwide under the campaign named OpIcarus. The Operation OpIcarus was resumed in March 2016, both Anonymous and Ghost Squad launched several attacks on financial institutions worldwide, including the bank […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2016
Anonymous presented OnionIRC, a chat service in the Dark Web

Anonymous announced OnionIRC, a new chatroom in the DarkWeb dedicated to teaching hacking and coding techniques and encryption mechanisms. Anonymous, the most popular collective of hacktivists, has announced a new chatroom in the DarkWeb dedicated to teaching its sympathizers hacking and coding techniques and encryption mechanisms. onionirchubx5363 . onion Port 6667 SSL: Port 6697 — Anonymous (@OnionIRC) […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2016
Former Reuters Matthew Keys sentenced to 2 years for hacking

This week the former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced to two years in prison for helping the Anonymous collective in computer hacking. Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was convicted in October 2015 of supporting the Anonymous collective, has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges. Keys has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2016
British Govt vs Lauri Love, it’s battle for encryption keys

The British Government is attempting to force the hacktivist Lauri Love to hand over his encryption keys to access data stored in his seized laptop. Lauri Love is the hacktivist accused of breaking into Government networks, now the UK NCA wants to oblige him to hand over encryption keys to equipment seized from his home. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2016
Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Gov

The Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Government, more than 43 GB of Data available Online The hacker group named Cyber Justice Team leaked 10 GB of compressed data (when decompressed are over 43 GB of data) from several Syrian government and private companies. The group claimed to have hacked Linux […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2016
Anonymous Philippines hacked the COMELEC. It is the biggest government related data breach

Anonymous Philippines hacked the COMELEC database, the incident exposed records of more than 55 million voters, it is the biggest gov-related data breach. A few days ago I reported the news on the availability online of a database containing data of more than 50 million Turkish citizens, now IT security community is discussing another clamorous data […]