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What is Enforced Transparency? A Western Trend?

The concept of Transparency carries a simple meaning, if practiced by governments it will empower the masses, place them in a position to expose misuse of power, corruption and defend their democracies. A namesake transparency will only be reduced to a smokescreen and a word to keep everything dark hidden and under wraps, something needs […]

Anonymous Hijacks Thousands of Insecure Routers to Power Its DDoS Tools

Lack of some elementary security measures can risk your router’s security and this has stemmed to grow into a large-scale denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using these hacker-controlled routers. A web security firm Incapsula has discovered a new router based botnet Mr Black while investigating some DDoS attacks against its customers since this December. Hackers exploited routers’ […]

Anonymous Leaks Emails, Passwords of Baltimore Police Department

The online hacktivist Anonymous claims to leak emails and passwords of Baltimore Police Department (BPD) against the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American Baltimore resident who died on April 19, 2015, a week after being arrested by the BPD.  On 2nd May 2015, one of the Twitter handle associated with Anonymous hacktivists leaked emails and IP addresses of workers at […]

World Trade Organization Hacked by Anonymous

The hacktivists of Anonymous are once again back in the news with their latest attack. A hacker claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous broke into the World Trade Organization database and made the personal information of thousands of officials public. Hacker injected malicious code into the flawed ecampus.wto.org domain. This website provides online courses in […]

Cyberwar: Armenian, Turkish hackers targeting each other’s govt websites

The cyberwar between Armenian and Turkish hackers is reaching a new height. It begin with Pope Francis’ remarks in which he used the word ‘genocide’ to refer to mass killings of Armenians by Turks. In reply, Turkish hackers conducted a DDoS attack and shutdown the official website of Vatican City. The same Turkish hackers then started targeting […]

Anonymous Shuts Down Worlds Largest X-Rated Animal Abuse Forum

Last week, we reported how Anonymous hacked, defaced and deleted several x-rated Animal abuse websites. Today the same Anonymous hackers have targeted the world’s largest Bestiality forum (beastforum.com) with a DDoS attack, forcing it to go offline. History: Anonymous hackers started an operation under the banner of #OpBEAST. The purpose of this operation is to raise awareness […]

Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Site, Leaks Massive Client Login Data

Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into the website of an Israeli arm importer and manufacture Fab-Defanse (fab-defense.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international clients/customers, including some government officers. The latest cyber attack was conducted under the banner of OpIsrael. After analyzing we found out that data is legit and never been […]

Anonymous Hacks and Removes X-Rated Animal Abuse Websites

Anonymous hackers have started a new operation under the banner of #OpNullDenmark and #OpBEAST. The purpose of this operation is to raise awareness about animal cruelty and websites promoting bestiality content (sexual relations between a human being and a lower animal). Though the operation is more active on Twitter, some Anonymous hackers decided to target such websites […]

Anonymous Hacks San Bernardino County Sheriff Support Site Against Police Brutality

Anonymous GhostSec hacktivists have attacked the official support website of John McMahon (mcmahonforsheriff.com), who is a severing Sheriff in the San Bernardino County Police, California. Hackers have left several deface images and messages against the San Bernardino County Police for kicking and punching a man who led deputies on a pursuit in the high desert northeast of Los Angeles Thursday, April 9, 2015. […]

Anonymous Wants to Completely Erase ISIS from the Internet

Anonymous, the international association of hacktivists, has been fighting with ISIS and aiming to take down its presence from the internet. Hacktivist groups have their own agenda, but ISIS has inspired Anonymous and some other groups to join forces and working towards this common goal. #OpISIS is one such operation that is being run by them […]

Complete Guide to Anti-Forensics – Leave no trace

The average personal computer is a security nightmare ,but what if i were to tell you there was a way around this, a way to make windows secure? VPNs , proxies , and Tor only get you so far , but what do you do when they’ve traced it to your computer? Anti-forensics are designed […]

Anonymous Shuts Down Montreal Police Site Against Brutality on Student Demo

The infamous online hacker group Anonymous’ Quebec branch has taken the credit for penetrating the Montreal Police department website and the officers’ union. On Friday, at 10:30PM, the Montreal police website went down and minutes later the Montreal police brotherhood also was shut down. The Police department website remained off until Saturday. According to a […]

OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Website, Leaks Thousands of Login Data

Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and posted in three different parts on Pastie sites for OpIsrael. After analyzing the data, we found out that data […]

OperationChina: Anonymous Hacks Chinese Police, Govt. Websites

Anonymous hacked several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The hacker behind this hack goes with the handle of @AnonymousGlobo on Twitter, who has been involved in several cyber attacks on different websites in past. AnonymousGlobo left a deface page along with a message […]

OpIsrael: Pro-Palestine hackers stole Israeli credit cards to fund charities

AnonGhost hacktivist group’s leader and founder, Mauritania Attacker, revealed on Tuesday that his team has funded Palestinian charities through stolen Israeli credit cards during OpIsrael. AnonGhost, the hacktivist group, acquired access to credit card credentials of Israelis by hacking into dozens of websites from Israel. According to Mauritania, until now the group has managed to churn […]

OpIsrael: Hackers leak 820 Israeli login data, deface 100+ websites

OpIsrael is kind of over but AnonGhost has leaked yet another list of login credentials of Israeli citizens — At the other hand another group of hackers going with the handle of AnonCoders is making news for defacing 100 Israeli websites. The online hacktivist AnonGhost has left a list of 820 login credentials on Pastebin, claiming the […]

OpIsrael: 700 sites hacked, thousands of Social Media, Paypal credentials leaked

Just few days ago we reported how Anonymous and AnonGhost hacking groups are gearing up to carryout cyber attacks on Israeli servers under the banner of OpIsrael. As promised, hackers (both from Anonymous and AnonGhost hackitivist groups) are carrying out massive cyber attacks on Israeli government and business websites (mostly owned by civilians).  The teams involved in these […]

OpIsrael: AnonGhost Leaks Hundreds of Israeli Facebook Account Credentials

The pro-Palestinian online hacktivist AnonGhost is claiming to leak hundreds of Facebook emails and passwords belonging to Israeli Facebook users for upcoming OpIsrael starting from 7th April 2015. Hackers have pasted the leaked data on Pastebin along with a message for government and people of Israel. The data contains emails and clear text passwords of […]

Anonymous Exposes pro-ISIS Sites and Hosting Companies Protecting Them

The Anonymous hacktivist group has just released a list of websites allegedly supporting the ISIS extremist group. The list also contains names of companies hosting or protecting these sites from DDoS and other cyber attacks. Originally, this list was compiled by “GhostSec” (A group working with other hacktivists to expose social media accounts, websites and other handles […]

Anonymous Hackers Vow to Shutdown IT System of Irish Government

Anonymous hackers from Ireland have vowed to target government of Ireland on 5th May 2015, shutting down its IT system and leaking confidential information online. Now this can be termed as a clear cut threat to the Irish government. Anonymous, the notorious group of hacktivists, has posted on its Facebook page “Anonymous Ireland expect us” […]