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Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli organizations, hack-and-leak operations targeting entities in Israel and the U.S., phishing campaigns designed to steal intelligence, and information operations to turn public opinion against Israel. Iran accounted […]
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against six officials associated with the Iranian intelligence agency for attacking critical infrastructure entities in the U.S. and other countries. The officials include Hamid Reza Lashgarian, Mahdi Lashgarian, Hamid Homayunfal, Milad Mansuri, Mohammad Bagher Shirinkar, and Reza Mohammad Amin Saberian, who are part […]
The recent wave of cyber attacks targeting Albanian organizations involved the use of a wiper called No-Justice. The findings come from cybersecurity company ClearSky, which said the Windows-based malware “crashes the operating system in a way that it cannot be rebooted.” The intrusions have been attributed to an Iranian “psychological operation group” known as Homeland […]
A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. “The group most frequently attacks logistics, government, and financial sector organizations in India and Israel,” Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity firm Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “The group […]
New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named Abraham’s Ax that emerged in November 2022. This is based on “several commonalities across the iconography, videography, and leak sites used by the groups, suggesting they are likely operated by the same entity,” […]
In the aftermath of the dastardly Pulwama terror attack that shook the nation to the core, a group of Indian Hacktivists going by the name Team I Crew has taken down multiple Pakistan Government websites, in one of the biggest cyber attacks on the neighbor. First reported by Times Now, well over 200 websites were […]
Another hacking campaign by the hacktivist collective Anonymous is online; it’s called #OpDomesticTerrorism. And this time, the target was more than a dozen neo-nazi websites collectively taken down by Anonymous groups across the globe, according to a report by IBTimes. The hacktivist group has taken responsibility for the attacks through a Twitter handle known by the […]
The cybercriminals (and their terrorist friends) are, probably, taught to perform their actions in a very covert manner. This means that they don’t openly challenge their opposition. Probably, ISIS propaganda network wasn’t explained how to practice this art. Amaq is one of the key outlets of ISIS, which issues claims for various terror attacks around […]
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’ […]
After taking over the cyber world, the online hacktivist group Anonymous has decided to go one step ahead by going on ground for raising voice against poverty, homelessness and bringing harmony among different communities of the world. Anonymous has engaged an operation under the banner of #OPSafeWinter in which Anonymous members will work on ground to help […]
Reports coming from various groups on Facebook that the site has been DDOS’ED by ZCompany Hacking Crew, the reason behind this is said to be , the site targeted the Holy Book Qur’an and various people are abusing Qur’an on this site, this site is supposed to say that for each click on the site […]
Sony Pictures website and facebook page have been hacked yet again by the “Hacktivist” Anonymous hacking group. Anonymous threatened to hack Sony few weeks ago for supporting the controversial SOPA bill and now it’s obvious that the threat was not just ” Big Talk” The hack basically affected Sony Picture’s website and Sony Pictures official Facebook […]