Hacktivist Groups Target Indian Elections, Leak Personal Data, Says Report

By Deeba Ahmed Multiple independent hacktivist groups are targeting India's elections with influence campaigns, Resecurity reports. The campaigns are designed to sway voters' opinions and undermine trust in the democratic process. Learn more about the tactics being used and how to protect yoursel...

Iran and Hezbollah Hackers Launch Attacks to Influence Israel-Hamas Narrative

Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli organizations, hack-and-leak operations targeting entities in Israel and the U.S., phishing campaigns...

Anonymous Sudan Claims London Internet Exchange Attack Over Yemen Strikes

By Deeba Ahmed Anonymous Sudan is a pro-Russia hacktivist group, and their emergence aligns with the rise of other pro-Russian cyber actors since the beginning of the Ukraine war. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Sudan Claims London Internet Exchange Attack Over...

orthodontics.nl Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3828182

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

GhostSec Pioneering the Hacktivist Front with GhostLocker

Summary: GhostSec, a hacktivist coalition stemming from the Anonymous group and part of The Five Families, has introduced GhostLocker, an advanced Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS framework. Threat Level - RED | Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here To receive...

GhostLocker - A “Work In Progress” RaaS

This post was also authored by Anna Širokova Executive Summary In recent years, there has been a noticeable uptick in threat actors venturing into the realm of Ransom-as-a-Service RaaS. Some have emerged as significant threats, while others have faded into obscurity. What makes the current...

Pro-Hamas Hacktivists Targeting Israeli Entities with Wiper Malware

A pro-Hamas hacktivist group has been observed using a new Linux-based wiper malware dubbed BiBi-Linux Wiper, targeting Israeli entities amidst the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war. "This malware is an x64 ELF executable, lacking obfuscation or protective measures," Security Joes said in a new report...

mlsu.ac.in Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3707677

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

pumpsouth.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3707521

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

mudinepalli.in Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3705660

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

"Mysterious Team Bangladesh" Targeting India with DDoS Attacks and Data Breaches

A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. "The group most frequently attacks logistics, government, and financial sector organizations in India and Israel,"...

Spy vs. spy: Exploring the LetMeSpy hack, with maia arson crimew

The language of a data breach, no matter what company gets hit, is largely the same. There's the stolen data--be it email addresses, credit card numbers, or even medical records. There are the users--unsuspecting, everyday people who, through no fault of their own, mistakenly put their trust into...

The Emergence of 1877 Team and Rising Hacktivist Threat

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The 1877 Team is a hacktivist collective founded by a small group of Iraqi Kurds in July 2021. The 1877 Team has claimed responsibility for a range of cyber attacks on national governments, universities,...

Meta Uncovers Massive Social Media Cyber Espionage Operations Across South Asia

Three different threat actors leveraged hundreds of elaborate fictitious personas on Facebook and Instagram to target individuals located in South Asia as part of disparate attacks. "Each of these APTs relied heavily on social engineering to trick people into clicking on malicious links,...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Behind DDoS Attacks on Danish Hospitals

On Sunday 26 February the websites of several Danish hospitals were taken offline after being hit by Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks claimed by a group calling themselves ‘Anonymous Sudan’. According to reports on Twitter patient care was unaffected by the attacks and the sites were ba...

Hospitals Hit by DDoS Attacks as Killnet Group Targets the Healthcare Sector – What You Need to do Now

The increase in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations in the US in the last 48 hours by the Pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet has become a serious concern. These types of attacks are designed to overload a network or system with traffic, making it difficult or impossible for users to access...

Similarities between hacktivist groups reveal Iranian connection

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary COBALT SAPLING is a threat actor group that is believed to be Iranian in origin. The group has been found to operate multiple hacktivist group personas, including Moses Staff and Abrahams Ax. Researchers...

Researchers Uncover Connection b/w Moses Staff and Emerging Abraham's Ax Hacktivists Group

New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named Abraham's Ax that emerged in November 2022. This is based on "several commonalities across the iconography, videography, and leak sites used by the groups,...