Ajay Sharma reports: Hacker group Anonymous has launched another attack on Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Lipetsk Mechanical Plant, which manufactures components for anti-aircraft missile launchers and other military equipment, were hacked by them on Friday. The hacker group posted on Twitter that they have merged and posted about 15 GB of…
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Hackers hit Hood. Dairy shut down milk production this week after ‘cyber security event’
Anissa Gardizy reports: It’s not just passwords, credit card data, or personal records. Now, it appears the hackers have come for our milk and Hoodsies. H.P. Hood Dairy said Friday that it was the target of a “cyber security event,” that forced it to temporarily shut its 13 dairy plants around the country this week….
Hackers interrupt Catholic charity’s online press conference on Ukraine
Hacktivists on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war have been busy. CNA reports that some hackers disrupted a Zoom event to stream obscenities and to post fake messages from participants — because disrupting faith-based events is always going to score points with the public, right? An online press conference by a Catholic charity on the…
Conti ransomware gang chats leaked by pro-Ukrainian member
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Conti ransomware group, believed to be Ukrainian of origin, has leaked the gang’s internal chats after the group’s leaders posted an aggressive pro-Russian message on their official site, on Friday, in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The message appears to have rubbed Conti’s Ukrainian members the…
Cyber-attack on ICRC: What we know
From the International Committee of the Red Cross, an update posted today begins: Update: 16 February 2022, 9 AM CET. Nearly a month has passed since we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were hacked in a sophisticated cyber-attack. We are now in a position to share some…
Leak site says it has been given list of Canada truck convoy donors after reported hack
Raphael Satter reports: A leak site says it has been given reams of data about the donors to the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate truckers after the fundraising platform popular with supporters of the movement allegedly suffered a hack. Distributed Denial of Secrets announced on its website that it had 30 megabytes of donor information from Christian…