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The infamous domain registrar Epik has officially confirmed the news Hackread.com broke earlier this month that its systems were hacked by a group affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivist collective. On September 15th, Hackread.com published a detailed story revealing that the online hacktivist group Anonymous hacked “a decade’s worth of data” from Epik, a firm known […]
The latest EPIK data leak, according to Anonymous hackers involves bootable disk images, API tokens, over 500,000 private keys, etc. – All in plain-text format. Hacktivist group Anonymous has published the second part of data stolen from controversial pro-right-wing web hosting platform Epik. As previously reported by Hackread.com, the previous leak comprised 180GB of the […]
The Texas Republican Party is now asking for donations to secure its website from further attacks from Anonymous and “Pro-abortion activists.” The official website of the Texas Republican Party was hacked and defaced by the Anonymous hacktivist collective on Saturday the 12th. The group carried out the cyber attack to protest the new abortion law […]
Anonymous claims that the data contains information about the company’s domains and clients. The alleged hacking of Epik may result in the leaking of backend information of the company’s clients to the public. Last week Anonymous hacktivist collective hacked the official website of the GOP (Texas Republican Party) leaving the party asking for donations to […]
The HackBack hacker is back. The Cayman National Bank has suffered a massive data breach, reportedly, carried out by hacktivist Phineas Fisher also known as HackBack. The hacker published over 2TB of data belonging to the bank’s 1400 customers including roughly 640,000 emails. Almost half of the customers are registered at the Cayman National Bank […]
Cyber activism is waiting to entering Spain’s political scene again. Ethical hacking specialists report that some hackers, allegedly linked to the ‘hacktivist’ movement known as Anonymous, are preparing a cyberattack campaign against the websites of multiple public organizations and private companies in the country. As reported in various hacking forums, the attacks have been planned […]
Over the span of last few years, the popularity of Dark Web has increased significantly and it continues to entice users every day with the privacy and anonymity it offers in the shadowy part of the world wide web. The content on Dark Web can be accessed by The Onion Routing (TOR) which is an anonymous […]
In 2019, there is still surprisingly little information about such an old, simple, convenient, and secure technology, as mobile VPN – Virtual Private Network). In this article, I will describe how you can provide access to your virtual private network to any device with a SIM card without having to install and configure any additional […]
According to a report from Haaretz, a group of hackers has claimed to have compromised the database of Israeli voters on April 6, just a few days before the Knesset election, which is the name of Israel’s parliamentary or legislative election that will be held on April 9. The group has claimed that it managed […]
He conducted those DDoS attacks for #OpJustina back in 2014. In April 2014, Martin Gottesfeld (34) from Massachusetts claimed his affiliation with the online hacking group Anonymous and conducted a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) on Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth Family Support. Gottesfeld further maintained that the DDoS attacks were against hospital’s alleged bad treatment […]
INTRODUCTION:- In this digital era, our information is more public than private. The massive growth of internet users is increasing day by day. What we think we simply search it on the internet. Here privacy becomes a big concern for every internet user, according to ethical hacking courses. There are many genuine reasons why an […]
Until recently, many people thought of VPNs as a tool used by tech-savvy kids to anonymously download music and films. But, as concern about the use and security of personal data online continues to rise, it is no surprise that the number of people using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) has increased dramatically – and […]
The official website of Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative ‘Davos in the Desert’ was hit by a cyber attack in which hackers defaced its homepage to protest the brutal murder of The Washington Post’s journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and killings of innocent civilians in Yemen. The unknown hackers left a deface page along with a brief message on […]
This is the second in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and business ramifications of the modern internet where […]
The official website of Banco de España (Bank of Spain), which is the central bank of the country, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday. The attack potentially disrupted the website’s operations and it became inaccessible at the beginning of the week. The attack, reportedly, has been claimed by the […]
Q-Anon gained popularity from the Far-Right’s favorite website 4chan. The online hacktivist group Anonymous has been missing from the limelight for a while but now, the group is back and vows to carry out a doxxing operation against Q-Anon and expose the real identity of whoever is behind it. Doxing is an activity in which the […]
Eventbrite-owned San Francisco, California based ticket distribution service Ticketfly’s website has been hacked and defaced – The company has acknowledged the hack through their official Twitter account. The website was defaced by a hacker going with the online handle of “IsHaKdZ.” The hacker left a deface page along with a brief message stating that: “Ticketfly […]
On May 10th, 2018, the online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) by hacking and defacing its subdomain against the ongoing censorship in the country especially the recent ban on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. If you are not familiar with the situation in Russia, […]
Last week the world witnessed cyber-confrontation between Turkish and Greek hackers. On Monday Turkish hackers from Akincilar (Invaders) team hijacked the Greek state-run ANA-MPA news agency’s webpage and posted a message written in Turkish and English with accusations of Greece’s support for terrorists. After that the hackers defaced the official Greek webpage of Japanese automaker […]
An animal abuse website or otherwise called a “bestiality” platform (whose name will not be shared here) has been hacked and as a result, personal details of over 3,000 registered users have been leaked and exposed online. The hack was identified by Troy Hunt, founder of HaveIbeenpwned and according to him, personal details of 3,200 users […]
MAC Changer is an utility that makes the maniputation of MAC addresses of network interfaces easier. A media access control (Mac) address of a device is a unique identifier assigned to network interface controllers for communications at the data link layer of a network segment. MAC address spoofing is a technique for temporarily changing your […]