The hackers came from around the world. They knocked Russian and Ukrainian government websites offline, graffitied antiwar messages onto the home pages of Russian media outlets and leaked data from rival hacking operations.
The war in Ukraine has provoked an onslaught of cyberattacks by apparent volunteers unlike any that security researchers have seen in previous conflicts, creating widespread disruption, confusion and chaos that researchers fear could provoke more serious attacks by nation-state hackers, ...
These old security vulnerabilities are creating new opportunities for hackers | ZDNet
Danny Palmer is a senior reporter at ZDNet. Based in London, he writes about issues including cybersecurity, hacking and malware threats.
Old security vulnerabilities in corporate networks are leaving organisations at risk from ransomware and other cyber attacks as hackers look to actively exploit unpatched systems and legacy software.
Ukrainians say hackers used local government sites to spread fake 'capitulation' news | ...
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A Russian flag is seen on the laptop screen in front of a computer screen on which cyber code is displayed, in this illustration picture taken March 2, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo
WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - Ukrainian officials say hackers have broken into local government websites to spread false reports that Kyiv had capitulated and signed a peace treaty with Moscow.
Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code
The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaked today a huge collection of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics, the South Korean giant consumer electronics company.
The leak comes less than a week after Lapsus$ released a 20GB document archive from 1TB of data stolen from Nvidia GPU designer.
Multifactor Authentication Is Being Targeted by Hackers – The New Stack
Adding insult to injury, Proofpoint claims this new approach makes these kits more effective. That’s because "modern web pages are dynamic and change frequently. Therefore, presenting the actual site instead of a facsimile greatly enhances the illusion an individual is logging in safely."
75% of infusion pumps have cyber flaws, putting them at risk from hackers: study | MedTech Dive
"One of the most striking findings was that 52% of all infusion pumps scanned were susceptible to two known vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2019 — one with a ' critical' severity score and the other with a 'high' severity score," Palo Alto Networks said in the study.
Hackers set the intended destination of Putin's $100 million yacht to "hell"
The modified information now appears on maritime tracking sites like Marinetraffic.com. The hackers have reportedly swapped the information multiple times, at one point changing the ship's call sign to "ANONYMO," as well.
The hack doesn't really have any affect other than providing a little laugh, which the hackers freely admitted, stating they wanted to "put a little smile on some faces for a short period in these dark times.
A top Ukrainian cybersecurity official says a volunteer army of hundreds of hackers enlisted to fight Russia in cyb… https://t.co/ir6A9C7uV4 ABC (from New York City / Worldwide) Fri Mar 04 21:23:36 +0000 2022
Army of volunteer hackers rising up in cyberspace to defend Ukraine. According to an analyst at cyber security fir… https://t.co/LLDMDRgmPW AFP (from France) Thu Mar 03 02:42:42 +0000 2022
Volunteer hackers enter Russia's war on Ukraine: "This is not going to be solely a conflict among nations. There ar… https://t.co/4Fn4BUxoIi ktbenner Fri Mar 04 22:45:54 +0000 2022
A volunteer army of hackers is piercing the Kremlin's propaganda bubble, writes @parmy https://t.co/4EKugF0wi1 via @bopinion business (from New York and the World) Thu Mar 03 18:07:05 +0000 2022
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