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It has been learned that an Anonymous hacker who is actually a 23-year old fresh IT graduate has been arrested on charges of involvement in the alleged hacking of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website On March 27, the hacktivist group Anonymous’ Philippines attacked the Comelec website and defaced it to prove their point that […]
Opera adds Free VPN to its Browser to Allow Anonymous Web Surfing — This is a shockingly awesome news! Last week, Avira launched Phantom VPN for Android and Window users. Now, Opera has announced that to ensure better online privacy the company has decided to assimilate unlimited, free virtual private networks so that its users […]
The infamous hacker collective Anonymous has launched its web chat services on the Deep Web The news was announced on the popular Twitter accounts of the hacktivist group and very soon it was circulating all over social media. The post stated that Deep Web will be hosting Anonymous’ chat service through which the group members […]
Anonymous conducted DDoS attack on Dalhousie University website against 2015 rape case — Anonymous demands punishment for the culprits In November 2015, HackRead reported about the hacktivist group Anonymous forcing Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of a sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl Jane Doe attacked by a fellow student on Halloween night […]
A man wearing an Anonymous mask was arrested in Arizona while attending a Maricopa County hearing over the suspected election fraud. Onlookers filmed and roared at the officers as they attempted to detain the peaceful bystander wearing the mask. The man later revealed as Jonathan McRae was peacefully attending the hearing when two officers hustled […]
Anonymous has leaked personal details of CEOs, managers and other employees of hotshot companies in Italy to protest against the new labour laws Last year, hackers leaked 1 terabyte of data from the Milan’s Expo 2015 website. Now, the online hacktivist Anonymous Italy – LulzSec ITA has hacked into the websites of several Italian job portals […]
Anonymous Philippines hacks Commission on Elections (COMELEC) website, leaks 55 Million voter data The Filipino front of online hacktivist Anonymous is in the war against their government for the last couple of years with defacements of websites and leaving messages against the policy makers. Now, once again Anonymous Philippines has hacked and defaced the official website of country’s election […]
“Anonymous” vows to carry on its annual assaults on Israeli infrastructure linked to its #OpIsrael campaign on April 7, 2015 — However, it seems more hype than harm The first attacks in connection with #OpIsrael occurred in 2013, wherein some divisions of the Anonymous hackers mutually launched multiple organized cyber-attacks against Israeli websites on the eve […]
Short Bytes: Just like the previous years, Anonymous and some anti-Israel groups are expected to launch #OpIsrael cyberattack on April 7. The authorities and organizations are on high alert to avoid any high scale damage to the cyber instrastructure of the country. If we take a look at the past years, a cyberattack has been […]
Need Secure Web Access Everywhere without Getting Identified? Avira’s Phantom VPN may help! Avira is known for developing the very popular, award-winning software Avira Antivirus and it seems the company has been striving to provide web users a secure environment over the web space so that their privacy is not violated nor are their computers. The […]
Angolan Government’s Websites Hacked by Anonymous’ Portugal for Imprisoning “Peaceful Campaigners”: The Portuguese branch of the infamous hacktivists collective Anonymous isn’t much satisfied with the sentences given to members of a Luanda-based book club for reading a political book. Therefore, in retaliation, they hacked around 20 websites of the Angolan government. Screenshot of the deface […]
After #OpCanary Anonymous Revives #OpAfrica with Targeting Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited The online hacktivist Anonymous is seeking to wipe-out evils like child labour, corruption and injustices from the world are in full form nowadays. Only a few days ago the group revived its seemingly dead campaign against multinational corporations, labeled as Operation Canary and now […]
BCGold Corp Becomes the Newest Victim of Anonymous’ Operation Against Multinationals A few years ago, the infamous hacker group Anonymous launched #OpCanary against MNCs but somehow this particular campaign couldn’t strike a note with the public mainly because it was a bit too heavy to digest. But that was then, today, it’s a completely different […]
Brazil now has its own Wikileaks and they call it BrasiLeaks A group of Brazilian activists and privacy advocates have joined hands to build a Wikileaks and GlobaLeaks like platform in Portuguese language to expose government corruption, fraud, embezzlement, abuse of power and even oppression in corporations. The platform is known as BrasilLeaks that can be accessed […]
Anonymous-linked Hackers Attack NASA’s System for Allegedly Keeping a Huge Secret Anonymous is a loosely connected group of hacktivists that doesn’t appreciate governments keeping secrets or conducting operations that somehow violate user privacy. So, to register their resentment what they do is attack the agency’s systems and hack critically important data. The same modus operandi […]
Short Bytes: Remember the recent leak by Anonymous that revealed the personal information of Republican Presidential front-runner Donald Trump? What’s more, this leak has fooled Donald Trump, the FBI, and the Secret Service as everything ‘leaked’ was already available online. In a new video, Anonymous has outlined this point and thanked everybody for being a […]
Short Bytes: As promised, the hacktivist group Anonymous has started its #OpTrump campaign. The Anonymous hackers have leaked tons of personal information about Donald Trump and dumped it online. They are also planning to do more damage by DDoSing Donald Trump’s websites and some famous universities. Earlier this week, Anonymous declared a war on Donald Trump […]
KarmaSec from Anonymous leaked a trove of data from Japanese Prefecture to raise voice against animal cruelty in the country. A group of Anonymous hackers calling itself KarmaSec came up with an interesting Tweet claiming to have breached into the server of Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture Tourism Promotion Division (visit-jy.com) and leaked a trove of data protesting in support […]
A Pastebin post claims that pedophiles are using Anonymous’ guy Fawkes mask to trap children online Nowadays, hackers and hacktivists are hell-bent on exposing Pedophiles that are busy scaring the memories of children of all ages with their malicious acts but apparently, cyber activists have identified that sexual predators are using the alibi of Anonymous, the […]
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is about to face cyber attacks from Anonymous and hackers around the world The online hactivist group Anonymous has pledged to revive its #OpTrump campaign, which was launched last year against Donald Trump. Remember last year the same hackers conducted a cyber attack on Donald Trump’s election campaign website against his hate speech. […]
Short Bytes: The decentralized hacktivist group Anonymous has again tied their shoelaces to run after the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. In a newly released video, the Guy Fawkes Mask representative declared a “total war” against Trump and encouraged hackers all around the world to participate in the planned DDoS attacks. Anonymous, the decentralized hacktivist […]