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In December 2015, Ukraine’s regional control center network was attacked with a malware and the government thinks Russia is the culprit. A section of Ukraine went dark on December 23 and the country’s SBU security service was quick to blame Russia for this power-failure. The Ukrainian power company maintains that the outage was temporary and not completely […]
The official website of Saudi Ministry of Defense faced DDoS attack on Sunday amid tensions between Iran and KSA. A group of unknown hackers conducted a DDoS attack on Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense website forcing it to stay offline for more than 24 hours. The Iranian news agency Fars reports that the hackers behind […]
Microsoft will now be informing users of any state-sponsored attacks. The news comes after Reuters asked Microsoft officials regarding a hacking campaign in 2011 in which hackers attacked leaders from China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities. Reuters asked Microsoft to provide reasons as to why they didn’t tell the victims regarding the hacking campaign. In response […]
North Korea is known as an authoritarian state but researchers have found their technological systems to be following the same path. Researchers have scrutinized the Linux distribution, Red Star OS, in North Korea and found it to be very restrictive. Previously, the operating system was found to be watermarking all the files on the USB […]
Chris Vickery, a security researcher who is known for finding leaked databases online claims he has found US voter registration records of 191 million US voters — It is unclear who is behind the leak, why the data was leaked, if the leak is a result of a security or a human error. Vickery in the […]
MyGov, a portal used for managing various Australian government services is asking users to turn off their two-factor verification while traveling abroad. Portal’s administrator has been advising this move to the users on twitter. When on a trip outside Australia, users are required to change their SIM to a locally accepted SIM card and during this time if they want […]
Yahoo has followed the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter and has announced they will also alert its users regarding state-sponsored attacks — So if any user is found to have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers they will receive an alert from Yahoo. Though, the company did not disclose how it will be identifying state-sponsored attacks […]
An online blog falsely claiming to represent Anonymous has announced its support for presidential candidate Mr. Bernie Sanders — In reply Anonymous hacktivists have denied any support for any presidential candidate. AnonHQ blog claims to be the official voice of the online hacktivist group Anonymous however the reality is far from the truth — The blog has […]
Juniper network has had a major breach which has led to suspicions of a group of foreign hackers spying on the encrypted communications (within the government and private companies) in the U.S for last 3 years. FBI has already started investigating the breach in which hackers are discovered to have installed a backdoor in the […]
After Facebook and Google, Twitter also has started warning message regarding state sponsored attack to some of its users — Alert urges users to use Tor. In October this year, Facebook announced that it will soon start sending banner notifications to anyone whose account may have been compromised by the government or if Facebook suspects someone […]
In a world where government surveillance is a big thing there is a need for tools countering the whole idea of keeping an eye on people — Here are some tools and gadgets which might help you achieve that very goal. When it comes to protest, police and law enforcement agencies are always equipped with […]
Will Canada’s new Cybercrime division Curb Cybercrimes and capture Anonymous? Since the approval of Canadian Anti-Terror Bill C-51, online privacy is in question. Anonymous at the other end furious over the bill hacked Police Association of Ontario and ministry websites to mark their protest, but nothing changed and its that time of the year where Canadian authorities […]
It is easy to hack a domain and set up scams for visitors but using a government email address to run a phishing campaign is a bit odd. Recently, I received an email which of course went straight to spam. I wouldn’t care if it was a random email but, in fact, it was from a state […]
Thailand police servers are the latest in the online breaches — This breach is a part of the campaign (#OpSingleGateway) launched by Anonymous against the Thai government. The server breach allowed Anonymous to leak private information regarding Thai officers and some evidence records. #OpSingleGateway is a campaign launched by Anonymous activists to protest and attract the […]
Google has denied all the accusations that were put forward regarding monitoring or censoring of those YouTube videos that are made for inciting attacks on Israel — Google claims their recent meetings were routine and had no such agreements. Though, a statement from Israeli foreign ministry last week said that the Google’s executives had agreed […]
Anonymous kicked started the operation #OpWhales and shut down almost all the Iceland government websites for about 13 hours as a protest against the whaling practices in Iceland. The online Hacktivist group launched a DDoS attack on 27th November at night during the #OpWhales and successfully shutting down every ministry website except the Ministry of Welfare. […]
A group of researchers from Checkpoint Security firm claimed that they have breached phishing servers that were used by the Rocket Kitten. Rocket Kitten is a group of hackers who are believed to be working in cahoots with the Iranian government. Rocket Kitten came into the spotlight in April 2014 and were unmasked in May […]
Cyber cooks breached the security of British parliament’s secure network and hacked into many of its computer systems. The hack allowed the hackers to leak several confidential documents in relation to MP for NewCastle upon Tyne Central, Chi Onwurah and her employees. This is one of the first successful attacks on the parliament’s secure network […]
Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. CAT is a state-owned telecom firm that has been selected by Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut […]
According to a study carried out by the Citizen Lab (a research department at the University of Toronto), FinFisher is the most used spyware by many government agencies around the world. Finfisher was developed by a German security company (FinFisher GmBH). The company has been selling this spyware to many law enforcement agencies from many […]
The Egyptian branch of the online hacktivist Anonymous conducted a massive cyber attack on Egyptian government websites in solidarity with protesters killed in August 2013. On Thursday, the Egyptian presidency website went offline, which in reality was a hacking attempt made on the site. The attack was carried out by an Anonymous group, told a Cabinet […]