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Team Xecuter is a hacker group that makes mod chips, cartridges and jailbreaking software for game consoles. Among console hackers, who primarily consist of hobbyists testing boundaries and believe in the open-source model, Team Xecuter was controversial for selling hacking tools for profit. [1]
BattlEye is a proprietary anti-cheat software designed to detect players that hack or abusively use exploits in an online game.It was initially released as a third-party anti-cheat for Battlefield Vietnam in 2004 and has since been officially implemented in numerous video games, primarily shooter games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds, Arma 3, Destiny 2, War Thunder, and DayZ.
The company raised additional venture capital and reimbursed all users affected in the hack. [221] On 14 April 2022, the FBI issued a statement that the Lazarus Group and APT38, which are North Korean state-sponsored hacker groups, were responsible for the theft. [222] [223] Accordingly, the US Treasury has sanctioned the cryptocurrency address.
The Poly Network exploit was an attack conducted by anonymous hackers on August 10, 2021. The attack transferred over $610 million in digital cryptocurrency to the hackers. . All assets were returned to Poly Network over the following 15 da
The Twitter hack began on June 14 when Sheppard and Fazeli assisted Clark in manipulating employees through social engineering. [6] This involved calling multiple Twitter employees and posing as the help desk in Twitter's IT department responding to a reported problem with Twitter's internal VPN .
Starting from late 2021, Anonymous took notice of the military build-up near the Russia–Ukraine border and thus acted to propagate peace plans to end the war in Donbas by defacing various websites, such as United Nations' Networks on Migration, Polar Research Institute of China, Convention on Biological Diversity, and various government websites in China.
The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January 2022, and took down more than a dozen of Ukraine's government websites. [1] According to Ukrainian officials, around 70 government websites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the National and Defense Council (NSDC), were attacked.
Max Ray Vision (formerly Max Ray Butler, alias Iceman) is a former computer security consultant [1] and hacker who served a 13-year prison sentence, the longest sentence ever given at the time for hacking charges in the United States. [2]