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Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2024
Cybercriminals are targeting elections in India with influence campaigns

Resecurity warns of a surge in malicious cyber activity targeting the election in India, orchestrated by several independent hacktivist groups Resecurity has identified a spike of malicious cyber activity targeting the election in India, which is supported by multiple independent hacktivist groups who arrange cyber-attacks and publication of stolen personal identifiable information (PII) belonging to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2021
A day before elections, hackers leaked details of millions of Israeli voters

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 October 12, 2020
APT groups chain VPN and Windows Zerologon bugs to attack US government networks

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint security alert to warn of attackers combining VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to target government networks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2020
Massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille ahead local election

While the Coronavirus is spreading worldwide, a massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille and the metropolis. Ahead of the 2020 municipal elections in Marseille that will take place on 15 and March 22, a ‘massive and widespread’ cyber attack hit the city of Marseille as well as the metropolis Aix-Marseille-Provence The 2020 municipal elections in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2020
Netanyahu’s party Elector app exposes data on over 6.5M Israelis

A misconfiguration in the Elector election day app developed by Likud, the Netanyahu’s party might have exposed data on over 6.5 million Israelis. A misconfiguration in an election day app developed by the Netanyahu’s party Likud, might have exposed personal details of over 6.5 million Israelis. The incident was reported by the Verizon Media developer […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2017
Kenya opposition claims election results manipulated in cyber attack

Kenya opposition claims hackers have manipulated the results of the recent election by breaking into the database of Kenya’s electoral commission. According to Kenya opposition, led by Raila Odinga, hackers have manipulated the results of the recent election by breaking into the database of Kenya’s electoral commission. The President Uhuru Kenyatta was re-elected and èrotests and violence broke out almost immediately. “At […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2017
Canada’ CSE warns of cyber attacks against next 2019 Election

The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that hackers will attempt to hack into 2019 country’s Election. The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that cyber criminals and hacktivists had leaked sensitive government documents, and attempted to hack into 2015 country’s Election. The hackers targeted candidates and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2017
President Putin ordered cyber attacks and propaganda to influence US Election

Putin ordered cyber attacks and propaganda to influence Election. Reading the “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections” Report. The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released an unclassified version of intel community’s findings on activities conducted by the Russian Government in the attempt to influence the 2016 US Presidential […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2016
Anonymous claims to leak Trump ’s personal info under #OpWhiteRose

The Anonymous Hacker collective claims to publish Donald Trump’s personal information, including Social Security Number and addresses. Alleged members of the Anonymous collective have leaked Donald Trump’s already public “private” phone numbers and other information online. The hackers have leaked also addresses, including the one of the Palm Beach residence in Florida, and social security […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2016
Dear Donald Trump Anonymous plans to destroy your campaign starting April 1

Anonymous has declared war on Donald Trump, the hacking collective will start a new powerful campaign starting April 1. The hacktivists have already expressed their disappointment on the presidential candidate’s controversial campaign rhetoric that resulted in a series of  a series of attacks. The attack against Trump started in 2015 when Anonymous defaced the website Trump.com with a […]