Posts Tagged ‘hacktivist’
Syrian Electronic Army hijacks eBay and PayPal
Famed ‘hacktivist’ group Syrian Electronic Army claims to have hacked eBay and PayPal Saturday. Visitors of the eBay and PayPal UK websites were redirected to defacement pages, but the group said the point of the DNS hack was not to steal users’ information.
Read MoreLulzSec hacktivists given longest sentence ever for hacking
LulzSec, famed British hacktivist collective, have been dealt the longest jail sentences ever for hacking. The group of young hackers has been behind several advanced cyberattacks on institutions across various sectors.
Read MoreDDoS hacks against U.S. banks to continue
Hacktivist group is planning to launch more distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against U.S. bank sites as part of Operation Ababil.
Read MorePwn2Own ready to hand out $560K to hacking contest winners this year
The annual Pwn2Own hacking contest has set the record this year as far as cash prizes go, putting $560,000 on the line to shell out to only the craftiest hackers around.
Read MoreMcAfee report predicts Anonymous to decline this year
Last month, famed hacktivist collective Anonymous launched a tirade on the nationally detested extremist Westboro Baptist Church.
Read More“Remember, Remember” Nov. 5 Anonymous hacks
Hacker collective Anonymous and other groups commemorated Guy Fawkes Day with alleged international hacks and protests against banks, security firms and governments. Most notably, the group claimed to have published 28,000 Paypal passwords.
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