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If you are in Rio de Janeiro be extra careful and do not connect your devices with publically available ”Free” wifi — Researchers have exposed several malicious WiFi networks stealing personal data from connected devices. While some crooks are busy phishing in the name of Rio Olympics there are some criminals physically running sophisticated scams by installing fake […]
Anonymous is conducting cyber attacks on Brazilian government domains and portals against Rio Olympics claiming the event is affecting natives on a large scale! The online hacktivist Anonymous Brazil is targeting Brazilian government websites to register their protest against the ongoing Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In their recent attack yesterday when millions around the world were watching Rio […]
Anonymous shut down Rio de Janeiro court website for blocking WhatsApp in Brazil! The online hacktivist Anonymous Brazil said on Tuesday (19th) that in a collective cyber attack the group has shut down the official website of the Court of Rio de Janeiro in response to its decision to block the messaging app service WhatsApp in […]
A defacer from Algeria hacked Brazilian telecom Oi websites in support of Palestine — Yes, we are also trying to figure out the connection ? Hackers will hack, no matter why or when once they find a way in they get in and take over whatever they can. Same happened with “Oi” a Brazilian telecom giant well […]
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 […]
Hackers state that electronic voting machines in Brazil are deliberately flawed with serious vulnerabilities The electronic ballot boxes are controversial in Brazil, many experts believe that the electronic voting machines or ballot boxes are susceptible to fraud and hackers can easily change the results. But it seems it’s not the only problem: A hacker apparently […]
Using a Public Health Emergency for Malicious Purposes — There’s nothing lower Cybercriminals are nothing but a bunch of lowlives who will go to any level to get something out of innocent users. In the past, they have taken advantage of terror attacks, crashing planes, Christmas and even disease like Ebola. Now scammers have stooped […]
The Online Hacktivist Anonymous Demands Exclusion of Saudi Arabia from Olympics for Battering Human Rights Saudi Arabia has always been criticized by the West for its strict civil laws and so-called Shari’ah abiding regulations. Lately, the Saudi government has been on a head-chopping spree. In fact, The Guardian noted that beheadings in Saudi Arabia have […]
A court in Brazil has ordered the mobile phone operators on Wednesday to block the WhatsApp messaging application throughout the country for 48 hours. A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, the Folha de S.Paulo […]
A group from Brazil has started an unusual campaign against the people who make racist comments on the Internet. What they do is they pick up comments from the virtual (online) world to the real world where they post those comments on the billboards near the place where online commenters live. The group is known […]
Earlier this week the servers of Brazilian Army got hacked leading to private details of around 7,000 military officials getting stolen. Hackers were quick to publish the hacked private data, which included national insurance numbers and IDs/passwords used for accessing official military websites along with other details. The attack on its servers was confirmed by […]
The best tool for cyber criminals with limited social engineering skills is tricking users into phishing scams and it doesn’t matter if the users are on a Mac, Linux or Windows OS, and that’s what’s been going on in the scam we are about to discuss. In this phishing campaign, Comodo researchers found out that […]
A group of Brazilian hackers took over a couple of government-owned domains on Sunday posing the question, if these websites are so easy to hack imagine how easy it is for the American National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on Brazilians? The targeted authority is the Brazilian Institute of research and development in Astronomy, Geophysics and Metrology […]
Websites being the target of hackers is not a new phenomenon; we read about it every day. What one will not read about every day is hackers targeting digital screens on bus terminals and certainly not targeting them with the aim of replacing advertising images with pornography. On Friday 7th Aug, an unknown hacker or […]
A 20-year-old Brazilian kid has been revealed as the maker of more than 100 banking trojans by the security firm Trend Micro. He is known online by the name of ‘Lordfenix’, ‘Filho de Hacker’ and ‘Hacker’s Son.’ The security firm writes that a 20-year-old college student from Tocantins, Brazil known by the name Lordfenix has […]
The U.S supreme court yesterday ruled in favor of same-sex marriages nationwide. Some are celebrating and some are unhappy with the ruling, but hackers have their own way to protect and celebrate. A team of hackers going with the handle of ‘ASOR Hack Team’ hacked and defaced a famous Protestant ideology based Brazilian online Gospel news […]
A Brazilian hacker going with the handle of ProtoWave, broke into the official website of Brazilian pastor Marco Feliciano, on Sunday afternoon (7th June), and left several messages against homophobia. Feliciano is known for conservative stance and contrary to LGBT unions and same sex marriages. The hacking of Pastor’s webpage took place on the same day when 19th LGBT Pride Parade was […]
Summary: Jessica Cussioli suffered a horrible motorcycle accident and was left without a major portion of her skull. Neurosurgeons rescued her by conducting Brazil’s first-ever 3D-Printed titanium skull transplant. Jessica Cussioli, a 23-year old Brazilian suffered a horrible motorcycle accident and major part of her skull got damaged. Neurosurgeons in Brazil performed the country’s preliminary […]
You may be a UFC champ in real life but when it comes to online world, hackers have an upper hand. A group of Brazilian hackers going with the online handle of ProtoWave has hacked and defaced the official website of Vitor Vieira Belfort. Belfort is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion as […]
Brazilian Ministry of Culture is planning to sue Facebook on blocking the picture of an Indian woman from 1909 just because her breasts were exposed. The ministry claims that Facebook is illegally exposing its censorship standards on Brazil. Brazil will sue Facebook for blocking picture of indigenous woman Reportedly, Brazilian Cultural Ministry isn’t happy with […]
WhatsApp banned by Brazilian Judge—Wants the app to contribute in Police Investigations. Luiz de Moura Correia, the Judge from the state of Piauí, has put a ban on the popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp in Brazil. He took this decision to force the owners of this app to cooperate with the State Police in their […]