United States prosecutors have charged 8 individuals suspected of being involved in a massive cybercrime ring that caused losses of $45 million (€34 million) to financial institutions from all over the world in a matter of hours. The 8 suspects are believed to be the New York cell of an international ... [read more >>] Name.com has started sending out notifications to customers, informing them about a data breach. The company believes that hackers might have accessed usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card information.
The Internet registrar says it stores the private keys needed to acce... [read more >>] Update. The Syrian Electronic Army says it has nothing to do with the emails. Read the initial story below.
The Syrian Electronic Army is best known for hijacking the social media accounts and websites of news organizations they accuse of spreading false news about the situation in Syria. However, no... [read more >>] OpUSA seems to have come to an end and it appears the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was right to say that the campaign would mostly consist of nuisance-level attacks.
So let’s take a look at what the hacktivist groups have claimed to have done.
Hackers News Bulletin has compiled a list of... [read more >>] Hackers of the Syrian Electronic Army have hijacked the social media accounts of yet another news organization. Their latest victim is The Onion, the famous American news satire organization.
The hackers say they’ve hijacked a total of five Twitter accounts – TheOnion, OnionSports, ONN, TheAVCl... [read more >>] The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked the Twitter account of yet another major media organization. This time, the victim is E! Online, the popular celebrity gossip and entertainment news provider. The hackers claim to have breached not only E! Online’s Twitter account, but also its SMS service, whi... [read more >>] Several hacktivist groups are planning to launch attacks against the government agencies and other organizations from the US. The campaign has been dubbed “OpUSA” and it is scheduled to take place on May 7.
Several websites have already been breached, and some of the participating collectives h... [read more >>] Starting with 2007, at least 30 US defense contractors have been targeted by the Comment Crew, the notorious hacker collective that’s believed to be funded by the Chinese government. One of these companies was QinetiQ North America. QinetiQ provides the US government with software used by the militar... [read more >>] On Tuesday, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced the start of week nine of the third phase of Operation Ababil, and unless all the copies of the Innocence of Muslims movie are removed from YouTube, the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against US financial institutions will not stop any ... [read more >>] Ever since the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) passed the US House of Representatives, several hacktivist collectives have announced their intentions to protest against the controversial bill. One of those groups is LulzSecWiki.
The LulzSec hackers have leaked the details of over 1,80... [read more >>] |
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