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Turla one of the most sophisticated groups supporting the Russian government. UGNazi, a hacking group led by JoshTheGod, was founded in 2011. They are best known for several attacks on US government sites, [20] leaking WHMC's database, [21] DDoS attacks, and exposing personal information of celebrities and other high-profile figures on exposed.su.
Malware is installed so the government can identify targets who use tools that hide their IP address, location, or identity. The best-known and legitimate form of government hacking is the watering hole attack, in which the government takes control of a criminal-activity site and distributes a virus to computers that access the site. The ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
An obscure cloud service company has been providing state-sponsored hackers with internet services to spy on and extort their victims, a cybersecurity firm said in a report to be published on Tuesday.
September: Level Seven Crew hacks the U.S. Embassy in China's website and places racist, anti-government slogans on embassy site in regards to 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. [50] September 16: The United States Department of Justice sentences the "Phone Masters". [51]
The group collaborated with LulzSec to hack the websites of a number of government and corporate sources and release information from them. As well as targeting American sites, Anonymous also targeted government sites in Tunisia, Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Turkey, and Australia. On July 21, Anonymous released two PDFs allegedly taken from NATO.
Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology.
Cozy Bear and fellow Russian hacking group Fancy Bear (likely GRU) were identified as perpetuating the Democratic National Committee intrusion. [2] While the two groups were both present in the DNC's servers at the same time, they appeared to operate independently. [ 29 ]