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Amateur hackers wage cyber war amid India-Bangladesh tensions

They are the 'watchers', the 'protectors', and the punishers delivering 'justice' in their own style – sitting thousands of kilometres away. Bangladeshi hacker groups such as Team ARXU, Team BD Cyber Ninja, and The Anonymous BD have escalated attacks on Indian sites, including those belonging to various chapters of ISKCON, the Hindu religious organisation currently at the centre of controversy …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Hacker releases call logs of Trump family, Kamala Harris

India Today

A hacker has released the phone numbers, allegedly belonging to United States Vice President Kamala Harris and some family members of President-elect Donald Trump, in an extortion bid against American telecom giant AT&T. India Today’s Open-Source Intelligence team reviewed over 2,000 numbers and call details provided in the sample data tranche and ran some of the numbers in Truecaller, the …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

Wired

In December of 2023, for instance, Anonymous Sudan took OpenAI's ChatGPT offline with a sustained series of DDoS attacks in response to the company's executive Tal Broda vocally supporting the Israel Defense Forces’ missile attacks in Gaza. “We will continue targeting ChatGPT until the genocide supporter, Tal Broda, is fired and ChatGPT stops having dehumanizing views of Palestinians," Anonymous Sudan …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Hamas-Israel conflict enters cyber space as hacker groups target government and private digital assets: Report

The Hindu

The Hamas- Israel conflict entered cyberspace with hacker groups supporting either side launching cyber-attacks with an aim to sow confusion or alarm. Pro-Israeli hacktivists meanwhile were also active, with the official Hamas website being taken down by a hacker group called India Cyber Force, a report from Cybernews said. Anonymous Sudan, another hacktivist group widely suspected to be Russian, also …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Government issues cybersecurity alert after Indonesian hacker group attacks 12,000 Indian websites – India TV

India TV News

According to a cybersecurity notice issued by the Centre, an Indonesian cyber attack group is purportedly targeting 12,000 government websites in India. According to the alert, the hacktivist organisation has also issued a list of government websites that it claims to be targeting, including state and federal government websites. Last year, a Malaysian hacktivist group hacked Indian government websites in …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Pro-Russian hackers Killnet behind Groningen hospital cyberattack

NL Times

The pro-Russian hacker group Killnet is behind a cyber attack targeting the University Medical Center Groningen since Saturday, specialists from Z-CERT, the body that assists the healthcare sector with cybersecurity, believe. Other Dutch hospitals may also be affected by cyber attacks, but it is not yet clear whether that is the case, a Z-CERT spokesperson said. Killnet is a hacker …

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2 years, 1 month ago

As Optus, Medibank and more are hit by cyber attacks, these 'white hat' or 'ethical' hackers are targeting companies 'from the inside'

ABC

Jessica Cruz and Ed Hopkins are hackers, but not in the way you might expect. They are also known as ethical hackers Dr Thomas says most ethical hackers work for consulting firms, who are then "engaged by basically every other organisation" to attack their systems. Ms Cruz — who studied software engineering but found she preferred "breaking things" — says …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Zoom for macOS: No hacker can hack your account now- Know how

India TV News

Zoom, an online video collaboration platform has reportedly fixed the most dangerous bug on Apple macOS that could allow hackers to take control of users' operating systems when they open the meeting app. The company said in a security update that the Zoom client for meetings for macOS, starting with version 5.7.3 and before 5.11.5, "contains a vulnerability in the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Chinese hacker groups continue to target Indian power plants, says government

The Hindu

The Union government has confirmed reports that Chinese hackers continue to target Indian power plants, especially those close to the Line of Actual Control even as a U.S. based cyber security firm report claimed that Chinese State- At least two attempts by Chinese hackers were made on electricity distribution centres near Ladakh but were not successful, Minister for Power R.K. …

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3 years, 1 month ago

The Russian hacker group behind the SolarWinds attack is at it again, Microsoft says

NPR

The Russian hacker group behind the SolarWinds attack is at it again, Microsoft says Enlarge this image toggle caption Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Last year a hacker group used a bit of malicious code it hid in a software update by the company SolarWinds to launch an immense cyberattack against U.S. government agencies and …

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4 years ago

COVID Vaccine on Hacker Hit-list Again: AstraZeneca Targeted By North Korean Hackers

News 18

In continued cyber attacks on key pharmaceutical organisations researching on Covid-19 vaccines, a fresh wave of attacks by North Korean hackers have been spotted to be squarely targeting British pharma major, AstraZeneca. Major Covid vaccine research organisations have been facing significant cyber attacks, suspected to be state-backed threat actors looking to steal key data from the Covid vaccine trials and …

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