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VandaTheGod of the “new” UGNazi hacker group has breached several subdomains of the website of the presidency of the Republic of El Salvador.
Defacement pages have been added to subdomains such as “cultura,” “ tecnica,” “asuntosestrategicos” and “inclusionsocial.... |
21 January 2013
03:29 GMT |
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After hacking the account of Shirley Phelps-Roper, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) spokeswoman and the daughter of Fred Phelps Sr. – the head of the controversial organization –, UGNazi hackers have turned their attention to another Phelps family member.
This time they hacked the Twitter account of Fred Ph... |
20 December 2012
03:15 GMT |
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On Monday, we reported that the Twitter account of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) spokeswoman Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper (@DearShirley) was taken over by UGNazi hackers. Despite the fact that the attacker used the Cosmo nickname, most people believed that it was simply someone utilizing the name of the notorious hacker... |
18 December 2012
04:15 GMT |
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The Twitter account of Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper – a spokesperson of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church – has been hacked. The hacker claims to be part of the new UGNazi collective.
After overtaking the account, the hacker – who took the name of former UGNazi mastermind Cosmo – started... |
17 December 2012
07:20 GMT |
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Hackers are attempting to revive the notorious UGNazi collective. One of their first orders of business was to deface the website of Panasonic Brazil. Shortly after, the hackers rushed to take credit for the outages experienced by Facebook and Gmail yesterday. “We took down gmail. We created a tool that expl... |
11 December 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Cosmo the God, the now-famous 15-year-old UGNazi hacker, has been sentenced by a juvenile court. The sentence doesn’t involve prison, but something that could be described by some as being worse: for the next six years, he will not be allowed to use the Internet.
According to Wired, until he turns 21, Cosmo c... |
10 November 2012
03:42 GMT |
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This week started off strong with news about Flame’s little brother. It turned out that SPE, which researchers believed was only a module, was actually a unique standalone malware. Considering the discovery, the “little guy” was baptized miniFlame.
On the same day, we learned that Santander Bank�... |
21 October 2012
00:51 GMT |
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American rapper Soulja Boy is the latest celebrity to become the victim of hackers. It appears that both his Twitter and YouTube accounts have been taken over by supporters of the famous UGNazi collective. While the Twitter account seems to have been regained by the artist, his YouTube account still bears the marks ... |
19 October 2012
04:35 GMT |
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After claiming that he might have had some involvement in the apprehension of the hackers who attacked the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) website, the organization’s boss Dana White once again sends them a message.
“They acted like tough guys when hiding behind a computer. We will see how tough the... |
17 September 2012
03:23 GMT |
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Matt Honan, the journalist who made security enthusiasts and regular users understand the importance of two-factor authentication after hackers breached a number of his online accounts, has interviewed Cosmo the God, one of the most notorious hackers of 2012.
The 15-year-old member of the UGNazi collective – r... |
11 September 2012
15:31 GMT |
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A few days ago, the FBI made public the results of a two-year investigation that targeted credit card fraudsters. Two of the ones arrested were Mir Islam, the leader of the UGNazi collective, and Cosmo, another member of the group whose identity had not been revealed due to the fact that he is still a minor.
After b... |
9 July 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, believes that he and his organization have somehow contributed to the arrest of the hackers involved in the attacks against ufc.com.
A couple of days ago, the FBI announced the largest coordinated international law enforcement action in history meant to di... |
29 June 2012
05:08 GMT |
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We reported earlier that authorities apprehended a number of individuals suspected of trafficking credit card information and among them we found Mir Islam, also known on the hacking scene as JoshTheGod, the leader of the UGNazi collective.
Authorities arrested him after he met up with an undercover FBI agent that p... |
27 June 2012
03:55 GMT |
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A number of 24 individuals suspected of “carding” crimes have been arrested as a result of what the authorities call “the largest coordinated international law enforcement action in history,” aimed at those who traffic stolen banking details and other sensitive information. 11 of the suspects... |
27 June 2012
03:07 GMT |
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Yesterday, on June 21, at 9:00AM PDT, Twitter started experiencing some performance issues and became intermitently inaccessible for around three hours. The UGNazi collective has taken credit for the downtime, but the company denies that the outage had anything to do with hackers. “We just #TangoDown'd ... |
22 June 2012
02:33 GMT |
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The official website of Comcast Hometown Network (comcasthometown.com), a San Francisco Bay Area and Central California regional cable network produced by Comcast, has been defaced by UGNazi. Besides defacing the site, the hackers also leaked 15 login usernames and clear-text passwords that allegedly belong to admin... |
18 June 2012
06:03 GMT |
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The controversial UGNazi group claims to have gained access to Google’s Mark Monitor account by social engineering an employee into associating one of the hackers’ email address with google.com. “So, Today, we are releasing our statement on that no one on the Internet is safe from UGNazi. On June... |
15 June 2012
05:39 GMT |
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The official website of Wawa (wawa.com), the US convenience store and gas station chain, has been breached by UGNazi. The hackers defaced the site’s main webpage so users who wanted to access it were met by a screen that featured hackers’ logo and their names.
“We did this not only for the fame but... |
9 June 2012
05:05 GMT |
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CyberZeist, a hacker part of the UGNazi hacker collective, has made available a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that affect the websites of Discovery Channel, CNN, New York Times, US Army’s Medical Regiment, and the National Guard. He claims that the proof-of-concepts have been published af... |
8 June 2012
08:21 GMT |
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A few days ago we reported that CloudFlare representatives reached the conclusion that UGNazi hackers managed to breach their systems by first compromising AT&T. Today, the company’s CEO Matthew Prince has returned with additional details.
“The morning of June 1, AT&T's customer support receive a ca... |
7 June 2012
07:56 GMT |
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The controversial UGNazi hackers, the ones who have been known to use distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks to make their point, have created their own DDOS tool which they dubbed “The Holocaust.” According to the hackers, Holocaust has been created in Python and C++ and it has already been put to... |
7 June 2012
03:34 GMT |
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The official website and the Twitter account of the American celebrity William Ray Norwood Jr, also known as Ray J, have been taken over by hackers part of the UGNazi collective, the same ones who have recently breached the systems of WHMCS, MyBB and CloudFlare.
Currently, the singer/actor/songwriter has regained ac... |
4 June 2012
04:32 GMT |
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After UGNazi hackers took credit for breaching the systems of MyBB, the popular forum software, the company’s representatives came forward to clarify the incident. According to MyBB’s Product Manager Tim B., they have managed to regain control of all their systems, the restoration process being underway.... |
4 June 2012
03:43 GMT |
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There has been somewhat of a controversy surrounding the data breach that affected CloudFlare last week, especially since the hackers’ statement doesn’t quite match the one of the website’s CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince. To further clarify things, Prince contacted us and provided other details.
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4 June 2012
02:53 GMT |
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From an information security standpoint, this past week (May 28 – June 3) has been quite an interesting one. Three major topics stand out: the new Flame malware, the WHMCS breach, and the controversy that surrounds the UGNazi hacker collective. When the world first learned of the Flame threat, many rushed to c... |
3 June 2012
01:41 GMT |
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A few hours ago, CloudFlare issued a statement admitting that hackers managed to gain access to the email accounts of Matthew Prince, the co-founder and CEO of the company. “This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack... |
2 June 2012
06:24 GMT |
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After yesterday they declared war to the famous Jester (th3j3st3r), a few hours ago the UGNazi breached the popular imageboard website known as 4chan.org. During the time in which it was controlled by the hackers, all the site’s visitors were redirected to the group’s Twitter account. “We are not s... |
2 June 2012
04:30 GMT |
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The controversial UGNazi hackers have done it again. They have taken down the website of the Wounded Warrior Project (woundedwarriorproject.org), a non-profit organization launched to help United States service members who have been wounded or who need assistance. If until now the hackers have provided somewhat ser... |
1 June 2012
08:50 GMT |
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Cosmo, one of the members of the UGNazi hacktivist group, has been arrested in connection to the breach that affected the website of the client management and billing solutions WHMCS.
On May 21, UGNazi gained unauthorized access to the systems of WHMCS and leaked around 1.7 gigabytes of data. At the time, Matt Pugh,... |
30 May 2012
05:10 GMT |
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UGNazi hackers have managed to gain access to the systems of WHMCS - a company that offers client management, billing and support solutions - leaking 1.7 gigabytes' worth of data. The hackers have also deleted all the files from the firm’s server, which has led to the loss of the latest orders and tickets.... |
22 May 2012
03:14 GMT |
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CyberZeist, the hacker part of the UGNazi collective, claims to have gained unauthorized access to the systems of Comcast (comcast.com), the renowned US Internet service provider. The company has become a target ever since it revealed its plans to help copyright holders in the fight against piracy. “Hey Mr.Com... |
21 May 2012
05:05 GMT |
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“Security Brief” continues with some of the most important events and incidents that marked the week between May 14 and May 20, 2012.
Many security companies detailed their findings as far as mobile malware is concerned. We‘ve seen that shady Android markets are showing up everywhere in the world,... |
20 May 2012
03:11 GMT |
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The Twitter account of the famous rapper known as Hopsin has been taken over by hackers part of the UGNazi collective, as a form of protest against the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing Protection Act (CISPA). The artist’s website, myfunkvolume.com, has also been compromised. The hackers claim that they... |
18 May 2012
06:39 GMT |
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UGNazi hackers claim they consider every government in the world to be corrupt and as a result, they target sites you would least expect. A good example is the one of the Government of Anguilla, a British territory in the Caribbean.
The hacktivists breached the website and leaked server details, database informatio... |
17 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Most internauts may have noticed that the sites of The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks have been disrupted as a result of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, but those aren’t the only attacks launched recently. UGNazi hackers have also been up to their usual shenanigans, sending large numbers of pac... |
17 May 2012
04:18 GMT |
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UGNazi hackers, the ones who usually protest against the United States government by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against major websites, changed their tactics. This time they breached the site of the Washington Military Department (mi.wa.gov). From the website’s databases, the hacker... |
14 May 2012
02:44 GMT |
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Hackers part of the UGNazi collective have gone silent for a while, but now they acquired another target on which they’ve launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The break seems to have been caused by the fact that a number of the group’s members have been arrested. “We were quest... |
11 May 2012
06:42 GMT |
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When it comes to online protests, especially the ones in which distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks are involved, the sites of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia.gov), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the one of the Department of Justice (justice.gov) often seem to be the favorite targets.
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24 April 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Hackers part of the UGNazi collective, the one that has been attacking websites belonging to the United States government, claim to have obtained a notice sent out by the FBI Assistant Director in Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk to Field Offices.
In the document, Field Office heads are requested to submit reports made aft... |
23 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Hackers part of the UGNazi collective said they would continue to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on sites that belong to the United States government, and it seems that they are keeping their promise. For the past 4 hours they have been attacking the State of Washington website, making it inacces... |
21 April 2012
03:42 GMT |
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UGNazi hackers, the ones that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on the Government of the District of Columbia's site (dc.gov) and the one of New York City (nyc.gov), are currently sending large numbers of requests towards the site of NASDAQ (nasdaq.com). “We have been attacking NASDAQ.... |
20 April 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Hackers part of the UGNazi collective, the ones who yesterday attacked the site of New York City, keeping it offline for close to an hour, return. Today, they target not only the site of New York City (nyc.gov), but also the one of the Government of the District of Columbia (dc.gov). Both sites, dc.gov and nyc.... |
19 April 2012
03:23 GMT |
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