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Palestinian Hackers
Anonymous Hackers Cyber Attacks Data Leak IDF Palestinian Hackers

Anonymous Hackers Threaten To Publish IDF’s ‘Top Secret Projects’

 

The Anonymous hacker group has published a video claiming to have infiltrated Israel's military and stolen some of its "top secret" documents.

Two weeks after Israel's Justice Ministry admitted a cybersecurity breach that may have taken hundreds of gigabytes of data, the Anonymous hacker group claims to have hacked the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), a much more significant target. On April 18, Anonymous posted a video on X stating, "Today we want to introduce their terrorist army to the world, after hacking their justice ministry.” 

Given the nature of the fighting on the ground, the cyber aspect of the Gaza conflict has not garnered much attention. However, with the most recent escalation, Iran has come out from behind its proxies, and as a result, two of the most cyber-active nations in the world are now participating much more publicly. This includes unsubstantiated allegations made by an Iranian hacker group that they were able to break into Israeli radar systems. 

In contrast, Israel possesses offensive cyber capabilities much beyond anything Iran can produce, despite Tehran's continuous efforts to improve its capabilities. As a result, there will likely be a digital uptick as the ballistic engagement winds down. 

None of this is related to the more theatrical hacking charges levelled at Israel's military. Anonymous is best understood as an umbrella agenda, with self-proclaimed members starting and coordinating activities that are subsequently promoted. It would be incorrect to view this as a globally organised group with any sort of structure. The most recent claims appear to come from a pro-Palestinian group called Anonymous for Justice. 

The Jerusalem Post adds that "according to IDF security assessments, the likelihood of an actual breach is minimal..." The IDF's computer system is highly secure and classified at multiple levels." According to the Post, if there was a breach, the material was most likely "obtained from civilian computers." 

With a total of 20GB of data distributed across more than 230,000 files, the Anonymous video alleges that compromised material contains "the identity of the generals, military bases, military contracts and top secret projects." The hacking operation was "conducted with the assistance of certain freedom seekers from your army," the video further warns IDF.
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DDOS Attacks
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SAS Airlines Faces $3 Million Ransom Demand After DDoS Attacks

 

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has recently become the target of a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, resulting in a $3 million ransom demand from a hacker group called Anonymous Sudan. This incident highlights the increasing sophistication and financial motivations behind cyberattacks on major organizations.

The DDoS attacks, which overwhelmed SAS's computer systems and disrupted its online operations, were followed by a ransom note demanding the hefty sum of $3 million in exchange for stopping the attacks and preventing further damage. The hackers threatened to expose sensitive data and continue their assault if the ransom was not paid within a specified timeframe.

The airline industry has been a recurring target for cybercriminals due to the potentially massive financial losses and disruption caused by such attacks. In this case, SAS faced significant operational challenges as its website and other online services were rendered inaccessible to customers, leading to a loss of revenue and damaging its reputation.

Responding to the situation, SAS promptly notified the appropriate authorities and engaged with cybersecurity experts to mitigate the ongoing attacks. The company also worked to restore its affected systems and strengthen its overall security posture to prevent future incidents. Collaboration with law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity professionals is crucial in investigating these attacks and bringing the perpetrators to justice.

The incident serves as a reminder for organizations to enhance their cybersecurity measures and be prepared for the evolving threats posed by cybercriminals. Proactive steps, such as conducting regular security assessments, implementing robust network infrastructure, and educating employees about potential risks, can help mitigate the impact of such attacks.

Incident response planning should also be given top priority by enterprises in order to reduce downtime and financial losses in the case of an attack. This entails developing a clear plan for confining and isolating the assault, recovering systems and data from backups, and keeping open lines of communication with key stakeholders all along the procedure.

The SAS Airlines ransom demand serves as a sobering reminder of the constant threat posed by cyberattacks and the significant financial implications for targeted organizations. Heightened cybersecurity measures, swift incident response, and collaboration among industry stakeholders are crucial in combatting these threats and safeguarding critical infrastructure from malicious actors.

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Phishing Attacks
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Phishing: The Biggest Security Threat of 2023

The year is about to end and every year we are witnessing that cybercriminals are advancing their methods of attacking systems and networks. Therefore there are various reasons why private firms and federal agencies should be more prepared for the coming years. As per the recent analysis Phishing attacks will be the greatest security threat in 2023. 

What should be done and what should be avoided?  


According to security analysts, Phishing attacks are more popular among other methods of targeting victims and have already claimed millions of victims worldwide. As per the ratio of attacks, phishing attacks are still on the rise. 

When we talk about phishing first we need to know why is phishing so dangerous? Because the emails that you receive from hackers will appear legitimate and use elements of social engineering to make victims far more likely to fall for the scam. 

Following the steps, hackers often fooled victims into providing their sensitive data and credentials such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and detailed account information in hopes of rectifying some nonexistent issues with an account. 

Furthermore, 74% of organizations in the United States suffered from a successful phishing attack last year, which is a 14% increase from 2019. 

Subbu Iyer, regional director for India and ASEAN, at Forescout Technologies, said that "digital transformation wave even as the cybersecurity teams in most companies are perennially understaffed and under-resourced. Poor knowledge of digitization, lack of cyber skills, and inadequately trained cybersecurity professionals are some of the factors leading to elevated cyber threats." 

Below are the indicators to identify whether the email you have received is legitimate or a scam. 

  • If you look closely you will notice poor grammar and spelling mistakes in the message.  
  • You will see that the email is coming from unusual email addresses, for instance, "4m4zon" instead of "amazon". 
  • The email includes links, if a source asks you to click on it, this is likely a sign of phishing.

How you can secure your system from phishing attacks? 


One way to protect your company from phishing attacks is to educate users and all employees. Educate them on how they can identify a phishing email and what could be done to avoid losses after receiving a phishing email. Furthermore, advanced technology and updated systems are required at the workplace to fight against phishing attacks and their consequences.
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Anonymous Hackers reportedly exposed the anti-Russian activities of the British Council

The Anonymous hacker group published an analysis of documents belonging to various British government agencies, including the Foreign Office, according to the local media reports. 

Anonymous previously accused British authorities and media organizations of influencing Russian-language media and attempting to shape the minds of their audiences in the way the West wants. In support of their position, the hackers published hundreds of copies of files that they called documents of the British Foreign and Parliamentary Ministries and organizations working for the authorities.

The analysis notes that the purpose of such manipulations is to change power in Russia and change the Kremlin's foreign policy.

It is also pointed out that the council is cooperating with British intelligence to be more effective.

The hackers noted the organization's activity in Russia's neighboring states: in the Caucasus, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine.

"The British Council's operations in the Baltic States are well documented: they are designed to socially unite Russian-speaking communities in these countries, to make sure they have strong ties among themselves and feel an affinity with British and European values and culture, and are resistant to destabilizing narratives. Brilliant brainwashing," writes Anonymous.

The group cites photocopies of files to prove their claims, which include a call for proposals for communication in English in the South Caucasus, Moldova, and Belarus for fiscal years 2019-2022. Anonymous claims that it is a copy of the Foreign Ministry document, but there are no logos or markings on it to confirm this.

According to this document, the British State was willing to allocate 650,000 pounds per year for English language training in the regions, so the total cost of the three-year program should not exceed 1.95 million pounds.

However, according to Anonymous, the real purpose of the humanitarian programs of the British authorities in the post-Soviet space is "to break the foundations of the regime in Russia or to change its foreign policy".


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NIC
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NIC hacked by a malware, over 100 computers compromised

 

Recently, India's largest data agency NIC ( National Informatics Center) was hacked by a malware unidentified as of yet. The attack was sent from an email, infiltrating the network and around a hundred computers were affected. 



After the attack, the incident was reported to Delhi Police's Special Cell and the case was registered under the Information Technology Act (IT Act). The attack came from an email, which upon opening by an employee - all data from the machine was stolen and encrypted. 

The National Informatics Center is a branch of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY). The NIC is responsible for the government's technical infrastructure and for the implementation and delivery of digital India initiatives. The Institute contained sensitive information related to National Security, India's Citizens, Home Ministry, Security Advisor, and the stolen data could very well harm National Interest. 

Upon investigation by Delhi Police, the attack was confirmed as a Malware coming from an email bait. While it was reported by only one employee, several of the workers got this mail containing the malware and when the user clicked on this mail, his system was compromised. Likewise, hundred of such computers were infected.

The IP address from the mail was detected to be from the Bengaluru office of an American company.

Attack from Anonymous?
Some sources say that this attack was from the infamous hacking group- Anonymous. Some days back the official website of the Indian Army and according to firstpost.com, a letter was sent to the Indian Government stating- 

 "We are Anonymous Again. 

 To the People of India and Government,
 You Have Underestimated the Power of people. You thought First NIC Hack by Anonymous was a Playful act, "THINK AGAIN".
 We are not here to Play with anyone. We are here to send a message to all the people who support the Anti-corruption bill. We took Down Indian Army Official Site and NIC knows more about what we did. We do not support anyone, We Support Only The Anti-Corruption Bill.

No one can speak for Anonymous, Nothing is Official." 

 It could be that both these attacks are linked and from the same group.
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Email Hacking
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Norwegian Parliament Hit by a Cyber-Attack on Its Internal Email System


Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament succumbed to a cyber-attack that targeted its internal email system. The news came in on Tuesday when the Norwegian parliament's director, Marianne Andreassen, affirmed that the threat actors had targeted the parliament. 

The hackers penetrated email accounts for elected representatives and employees, from where they stole various amounts of data. Andreassen said that the incident is currently being monitored, and, so couldn't give any insight into who was responsible for the attack, or the number of hacked accounts.

People whose accounts were exposed in the attack have been informed about the same and a report has been filed with the Norwegian police and the nation's intelligence agency has just begun investigating the incident, as per a statement the agency posted on its Twitter account after the incident. 

The local press, who initially broke the story additionally, announced that the parliament's IT staffs has closed down its email service to keep the hackers from siphoning more information. 

Besides this, a representative for Norway's main opposition party, the Labour Party, told public broadcaster NRK that the attack had additionally affected a few Labour Party members and staff. 

After the incident was found, the Norwegian National Security Authority (NSA) was brought in to counter the attack and get to the bottom of what had occurred "We have been involved for a few days," said NSA spokesman Trond Oevstedal. 

"We are assisting parliament with analysis and technical assistance." Andreassen said that the parliament had discovered "anomalies a little more than a week ago." 

"A number of risk-reducing immediate measures were implemented to stop the attack," said Andreassen. "These measures had an immediate effect." 

In a statement issued earlier read: "Burglary has been registered in the email accounts of a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees. Our analyses show that different amounts of data have been downloaded." 

The Storting through this statement said that the attackers had snatched a vague measure of data. So far no there is no info released with respect to what sort of cyber-attack was executed against the Norwegian parliament or who was responsible for it. 

However, as Andreassen said to the reporters they take the matter quite seriously and have given our complete attention to investigating the situation to get a complete image of the incident and the possible degree of harm caused by it.

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Wi-Fi Router
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Your home wi-fi isn't safe: Hackers know router trick to access bank accounts, card details

Next time when you connect smartphone or a laptop to relatively secure home Wi-Fi, you might actually be surprised how easy it is to hack into your home Wi-Fi network, courtesy that router installed by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). A small vulnerability in the home Wi-Fi network can give a criminal access to almost all the devices that access that Wi-Fi. This could spell trouble for bank accounts, credit card details, child safety and a whole lot of other concerns.

Trouble could come in the form of a neighbourhood kid who piggybacks on your Internet service. While he plays video games online and talks to his friends over VOIP (Internet-based) telephone service, your Internet service may become sluggish.

But an unsecured home wireless system can also be used to commit crime.

According to the US Department of Justice, law enforcement officers will come knocking on your door if someone uses your Internet connection to upload or download child pornography.

And the bad guys don't have to live next door. Powerful Wi-Fi antennas can pull in a home network's signal from as far away as over 4 kms.

According to Finnish cyber security firm F-Secure, for very little money, a hacker can rent a Cloud-enabled computer and guess your network's password in minutes by brute force or using the powerful computer to try many combinations of your password.

The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recently issued an alert about Russia-sponsored hackers carrying out attacks against a large number of home routers in the U.S.

According to Sanjay Katkar, Joint Managing Director and CTO, Quick Heal Technologies, cyber criminals are known to exploit vulnerabilities in home Wi-Fi routers by delivering a payload.

"Once infected with the malware, the router can perform various malicious activities like redirecting the user to fake websites when visiting banking or other e-commerce sites," Katkar told IANS recently.
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Server Compromise
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Hackers abusing Microsoft Azure to deploy malware

Now Microsoft Azure becomes a sweet spot for hackers to host powerful malware and also as a command and control server for sending and receiving commands to compromised systems.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.

Initially, this malicious operation was uncovered and reported by @JayTHL & @malwrhunterteam via Twitter in which they provide the evidence that there is a malicious software being hosted in Microsoft Azure.

Researcher’s already reported this malicious operation to Microsoft. however, the original malware (plus additional samples uploaded since) still resided on the Azure site as of May 29, 2019 – 17 days later, Appriver Reported.

This is an evidence of Azure that failed to detect the malware residing on the Microsoft server, but Windows defender is detecting the malicious files if users attempt to download from the malware-hosting server.

Windows defender detects this malware as Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C and the first new sample ( searchfile.exe ) was initially uploaded to VirusTotal on April 26, 2019, and another sample (printer/prenter.exe) was first submitted on April 30, but also remains undetected on Azure servers.

According to appriver, however, it does not appear the service is currently scanning Azure sites or, one could surmise that these files would’ve been detected by now.

Based on the analysis report using the printer.exe file, attackers uncompiled this malware with the c# .net portable executable file.

Attackers cleverly using an uncompiled file as an attempt to evade the gateway and endpoint security detection by thoroughly examining the downloaded binaries.”

Once running, this malicious agent generates XML SOAP requests every 2 minutes to check-in and receive commands from the malicious actors Azure command and control site at: systemservicex[.]azurewebsites[.]net/data[.]asmx”

This is not a first-time malware operator abusing Azure, but already we reported that attackers abuse Microsoft Azure Blog Hosting and it also attempted to steal the login credentials.
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WannaCry Ransomware
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Bug in Microsoft RDP allows hackers perform WannaCry level attack


A critical remote execution vulnerability in Microsoft remote desktop services enables let attackers compromise the vulnerable system with WannaCry level malware.

Microsoft recently fixed this RCE vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services, and it’s affected some of the old version of Windows.

A WannaCry attack was one of the notorious cyber attacks in this decade, and it shut down million of computer around the world by exploiting the vulnerability in the RDP protocol.

In this case, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) itself is not vulnerable, but attackers need to perform pre-authentication, and it doesn’t require user interaction.

This vulnerability didn’t have any exploit at this time, but in the future, an attacker will create a malware that exploits this vulnerability in a similar way of WannaCry attack.

Vulnerable in-support systems include Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008 and also out of support versions Windows 2003 and Windows XP.

3 Million Endpoints are Vulnerable to This RCE Bug

Initially, an unauthenticated attacker will send the specially crafted malicious request to the vulnerable systems after they establish a connection through RDP.

According to Microsoft, This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the target system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

An Independent researcher Kevin Beaumont said, based on the Shodan search engine, around 3 million RDP endpoints are directly exposed to the internet.

“There is partial mitigation on affected systems that have Network Level Authentication (NLA) enabled. The affected systems are mitigated against ‘wormable’ malware or advanced malware threats that could exploit the vulnerability, as NLA requires authentication before the vulnerability can be triggered.” Microsoft said.

According to Simon Pope, Director of Incident Response, Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) “Customers running Windows 8 and Windows 10 are not affected by this vulnerability”.
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London hackers may be behind ransomware attack on Lucknow hotel

In a first-of-its-kind ransomware attack in Lucknow, cybercriminals breached and blocked the computer system of The Piccadily, a five-star hotel in the capital of Uttar Pradesh, and demanded a ransom to allow data access. Ransomware is a malware unleashed into the system by a hacker that blocks access to owners till ransom is paid.

The hotel management lodged an FIR with the cyber cell of police and also roped in private cyber detectives to probe the crime and suggest a remedy.

The hotel’s finance controller in Alambagh, Jitendra Kumar Singh, lodged an FIR on March 9, stating the staff at the hotel was unable to access the computer system on February 27 around 11:45 pm when they were updating monthly business data. This was followed by screen pop-ups which read — Oops, your important files are encrypted. The staff initially ignored the pop-ups and rebooted the system following which it crashed. Later, the hotel management engaged a software engineer to track down the malfunction after which it came to light the system has been hit by ransomware.

Nodal officer of the cyber cell deputy superintendent of police (DySP) Abhay Mishra said the case happens to be first of its kind of ransomware attack in the city. The demand for ransom in such cases are also made through ‘Bitcoin’, he said. “They are investigating into the matter, but are yet to make any breakthrough,” Singh told TOI. The staff initially ignored the pop-ups and rebooted the system following which it crashed.

The cyber cell of Lucknow police believes the ransomware attack could have been made from London. Sleuths of the cyber cell made these claims after authorities of the Piccadily said they had been getting frequent phone calls from London-based number after the attack.

Singh said, “We received for calls from the same number a day after the attack. The callers inquired about the ransomware attack and asked about the progress in the case. Later, they also agreed to offer assistance.”
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Smuggling
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Hackers use stolen Apple prototypes to break into iPhone


Apple's production lines are so massive that it's easy to imagine iPhones being smuggled out of there.

We all know the story of the prototype iPhone 4 that was left at a bar, spoiling what could have been one of the biggest surprises in Apple history. But have you heard the one about the stolen prototype iPhones that are still winding up in unintended hands — in this case, hackers bent on finding ways to break into Apple’s operating system?

As per a report, some of the most prominent iOS hackers have made use of prototype iPhones to break into iOS.

Just like every smartphone maker, Apple also develops a prototype or 'dev-fused' iPhone for testing different technologies, modems, chips.

If you are an iPhone user, chances are that you know about Cydia, the jailbroken app store for iPhone and iPads. While Jailbreaking is a type of hack that is mostly used to sideload paid apps for free, there are other types of hacks as well. Hacks that are either much more problematic or useful, depending on which side of the hack one is in. Apple phones come with a Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) that encrypts sensitive data on the phone and is set-up as a separate entity. Motherboard investigated how some of the best hackers were able to get study the chip and the answer is said to be a “dev-fused” iPhone, which is an iPhone that was lifted before finishing the production process.

As per the report, these dev-fused iPhones are pre-jailbroken devices in which many security features are disabled. This is so that researchers can test them easily but these devices were never intended to get out of Apple’s reach.

The Motherboard report says there’s now a gray market for “dev-fused” iPhones and each product sells for thousands of dollars. Why? Because they help hackers, security researchers crack iPhones and find critical vulnerabilities in them.

Gaining root access to these pre-production iPhones is said to be much easier than doing the same on a commercially available iPhone.
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Can AI become a new tool for hackers?

Over the last three years, the use of AI in cybersecurity has been an increasingly hot topic. Every new company that enters the market touts its AI as the best and most effective. Existing vendors, especially those in the enterprise space, are deploying AI  to reinforce their existing security solutions. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybersecurity is enabling IT professionals to predict and react to emerging cyber threats quicker and more effectively than ever before. So how can they expect to respond when AI falls into the wrong hands?

Imagine a constantly evolving and evasive cyberthreat that could target individuals and organisations remorselessly. This is the reality of cybersecurity in an era of artificial intelligence (AI).

There has been no reduction in the number of breaches and incidents despite the focus on AI. Rajashri Gupta, Head of AI, Avast sat down with Enterprise Times to talk about AI and cyber security and explained that part of the challenge was not just having enough data to train an AI but the need for diverse data.

This is where many new entrants into the market are challenged. They can train an AI on small sets of data but is it enough? How do they teach the AI to detect the difference between a real attack and false positive? Gupta talked about this and how Avast is dealing with the problem.

During the podcast, Gupta also touched on the challenge of ethics for AI and how we deal with privacy. He also talked about IoT and what AI can deliver to help spot attacks against those devices. This is especially important for Avast who are to launch a new range of devices for the home security market this year.

AI has shaken up with automated threat prevention, detection and response revolutionising one of the fastest growing sectors in the digital economy.

Hackers are using AI to speed up polymorphic malware, causing it to constantly change its code so it can’t be identified.
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Anonymous hackers taken down Canadian government websites

Anonymous hacking group hacked the several Canadian government websites and servers on Wednesday, in retaliation for a new anti-terrorism law passed by Canada’s politicians.

The sites which were affected by this cyber attack includes general website for government services, canada.ca, Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

According to the cabinet minister, Tony Clement, who is responsible for the Treasury Board, the attack has affected the email and the internet access. He confirmed this on his Twitter account.

 A video  has been posted on YouTube by Anonymous citing that the anti-terrorism law violated human rights and targeted people who disagree with the government.

The new Bill C-51, or the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, would give new powers to CSIS and federal agencies to increase surveillance and share information about individuals.

Talking to the reporters of the guardian, the public safety minister, Steven Blaney, denounced the cyber attacks, “there were many other democratic ways for Canadians to express their views, and  the government was implementing efforts to improve its cyber security.”
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Two Anonymous hackers arrested by Australian Police

After a lengthy investigation, two people believed to be members of Anonymous hacker group have been arrested for allegedly hacking into government and corporate websites.

Police says a 40-year-old man from Western Australia has been charged with hacking into Melbourne IT Ltd's computer network in Brisbane and Indonesian government web servers, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.

The 18-year-old man from Penrith was charged with hacking into NetSpeed ISP located in Canberra and ACT Long Service Leave Authority.

These two were reportedly involved in several cyber attacks which includes modifying the content of websites and disrupting access to many websites by launching Distributed Denial of service(DDoS) attacks.  These attacks date back to 2012.

A number of computer hard drives and other computer equipments from the suspects' house have been seized by Police.  
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#OpWorldCup: Brazil Government websites hacked by DK Brazil Hackteam


An anonymous affiliated hacker group called as "DK Brazil Hackteam & An0nнat" targeting Brazil government and defaced several Brazil Government websites in recent days.

The hack is part of an ongoing operation called "#OpWorldCup" which.  The operation is appeared to be a protest against the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup that is scheduled to take place in Brazil.

The group has defaced two Brazil government websites www.saobento.ma.gov.br and Brazil's Barro Municipality (barro.ce.gov.br/).

The group has defaced plenty of Brazil Government sites at the end of last month.  They hacked the following the websites so far: www.novaluzitania.sp.gov.br/, indaial.sc.gov.br/, igarapedomeio.ma.gov.br/, procon.sp.gov.br.
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Anonymous hacker charged for hacking Singapore PM website


 A 27 year old Singaporean has been charged for hacking into the Singapore Prime minister's website and deface it.

Mohammad Azhar bin Tahir, charged for modifying the contents of PM's website (www.pmo.gov.sg) on Nov 7, causing it to display a message with an Anonymous mask picture.

The hacker also faces nine other unrelated-charges which includes hacking into and changing the Wireless network password belong to a person Nadia Binte Ali Khan.

In fact, the Prime Minister's website is not actually hacked; the hacker just exploited the 'Reflected' XSS vulnerability and managed to display the defacement message.  It is non-persistent that means visitors of the site won't be able to see the defacement, only those who visit crafted-link.

Defacement exploiting Reflected XSS vulnerability

Azhar's 21-year-old brother, Mohammad Asyiq Tahir, also faces 6 charges under Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act. One was for hacking Ridhwan's ex-girlfriend's facebook account.

Last month, James Raj Arokiasamy who is said to be the Anonymous hacker with handle "The Messiah", charged for hacking into Ang Mo Kio Town Council website.
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14 alleged RedHack and Anonymous hackers referred to court


A total of 14 alleged members of Turkish hacktivist RedHack and Anonymous hacktivists have been detained.

The Word Bulletin reports that suspects were referred to the Ankara Courthouse on Monday.  The operation is against the RedHack group which is being labeled as a criminal organization by Turkish Government.

The Ankara Police Department's Cyber Crime Units arrested alleged hackers from various locations including Ankara, KahramanmaraÅŸ, Bursa, Mersin.

The suspects are accused of being part of hacking attacks against Government and individuals and disclosing confidential information.

However, the RedHack group says none of the arrested people are part of their group.

"All those arrested are not known to us. Every single one in our team is safe. Fascist gov't of Turkey continues it's scaremongering to + "The tweets posted by the hacker group reads.

"they are trying new tactics to cut the support to RedHack. But what they don't realise is that #RedHack have become the RedPeople Now"

*UPDATE: The suspects released by court 
14 Turkish people including one actor "Barış Atay" who are accused of being member of Redhack hacker group have been released by the Ankara Court, according to the Turkish local news report.
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OpTurkey
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#OpTurkey - Fox Turkey & VodaSoft hacked by Anonymous

Anonymous hacktivists continue their cyberattack against Turkey.  Today, they have breached Fox turkey and Vodasoft Call Center Solutions websites.

The security breach is part of the ongoing operation "#OpTurkey" which was kicked off in response to the government's violent attempt to suppress Turkish protests.

Unfortunately, the Government fails to know the violence against protesters will get the attention of Internet activists.

Hackers leaked more than thousands data from the Fox Turkey website(fox.com.tr) which contain ip address, email ids and name : http://nopaste.me/paste/208744166651b10f0ba7d44

The Vodasoft's leak comprise of username, email address, name and password details :http://nopaste.me/paste/126630249651b1068f3ee4c

Recently hacktivists breached the Prime minister website, Ministry of Interior and more Turkey websites as part of the operation.
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ANON_0x03 invade Argentina military website


The hacker group "ANON_0x03" affiliated with Anonymous hacktivists has invaded the website belong to Infantry branch of Argentina Army (infanteria.mil.ar).

The website has been defaced and notified in the zone-h mirror page by a hacker with the handle "voldem0rt".

Unlike other hackers, they didn't left any messages in the defacement.  They leaked the compromised database in the defacement instead.

The data leaked by Anon 0x03 includes email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords and other information.

We are still able to see the defacement page at the time of writing.  But the security breach was done 24 hours ago.

Mirror:
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19658987

They also leaked login credentials belong to few Peru government websites along with the link to login panel.
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The Daily Star website hacked by Anonymous hacktivist


Anonymous Hacktivists hacked into The Daily Star website and upload articles with title "Anonymous Continues Struggle For Justice".

According to Daily Start News report, around one hour after admin removed the post, the hacker once again uploaded the same article with different title "Anonymous Steps It Up".

"Anonymous continued its bid for true democracy and freedom today, when they started on a new path to bring to an end the corruption and oppressive regimes of todays governments. In a call for a truely open society Anonymous has started to raise its public profile the world over," The hacker said in the defacement message.

"Anonymous is calling for media transparency on all sides, particularly to do with world-issues such as Iran/Israel and the USA/UK arms deals in the middle east. As with all arguments, there are two sides, and single sided reporting must stop. War criminals should be tried for their crimes and in the case of state sponsored terrorism, the public should be fully aware of the acts governments commit in order to fight their injustice."
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